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<p>The story of a 17-year-old in love and lust with her teacher, Jennette McCurdy’s debut novel, ‘Half His Age’, is full of pathos and rage</p>

The Saturday Interview

Jennette McCurdy: ‘Do we ever grow out of wanting to feel special?’

Her wry, revealing memoir 'I'm Glad My Mom Died' spent a year and a half on the ‘New York Times’ bestseller list, and now Jennifer Aniston is set to star in a screen adaptation. As she releases her daring debut novel ‘Half His Age’, Jennette McCurdy tells Annabel Nugent about how she swapped child stardom for literary acclaim

<p>Rachel and Stephen on 'The Traitors'</p>

The Traitors finale was dazzling, but the BBC must heed this warning

How wolf in sheep’s clothing Stephen proved to be the apex Traitor

<p>Éanna Hardwicke by Pip. Styling: Tom O’Dell. Grooming: Alexis Day.</p>

Interview

Meet the man playing Roy Keane: ‘He wasn’t afraid to p*** people off’

Features & Reviews

<p>Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman, Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale and Lucas Grabeel jump and grin and siiiiing in the artwork for Disney’s ‘High School Musical’</p>

Flashbacks

12-year-old girls were never the same after High School Musical

<p>Lee Byung Hun in Park Chan Wook’s ‘No Other Choice’</p>

The director of Oldboy has made a brutal and hilarious murder thriller

<p>Dante </p>

Dante or Die’s hotel show is an ingenious exercise in voyeurism

<p>Chris Pratt in ‘Mercy’</p>

AI decides Chris Pratt’s fate in the baffling, dismal Mercy

The Saturday Interview

<p>‘I had become very tired of the trope of the toxic father’: Brendan Gleeson stars in ‘H is for Hawk</p>

The Saturday Interview

Brendan Gleeson: ‘I’m more into enjoying life than being pretty’

<p>Malachi Kirby: ‘Most of the characters that I’ve played have been traumatised. Weirdly, that is my comfort zone’</p>

the saturday interview

Malachi Kirby: ‘The cameras were off at this point, but I was shaking’

Rising Stars

<p>Rising star Alfie Williams, who returns to the world of ‘28 Years Later’ with ‘The Bone Temple’</p>

Interview

Meet 28 Years Later’s 14-year-old star: ‘It’s so gory but so awesome!’

<p>Josh Finan: ‘There’s a certain amount of pressure that builds up in your body over the days’</p>

Interview

Josh Finan on his searing prison drama Waiting for the Out

<p>‘It was awful timing. It was the biggest opportunity I’d had in my career. And we weren’t allowed to talk about it’</p>

Interview

Archie Madekwe: ‘It’s easy to get lost in the bigger picture – that’s when you fall into narcissism’

<p>Petticrew stars in a classic tale of forbidden love set against the backdrop of the Troubles</p>

Interview

Lola Petticrew: ‘Calling it the Troubles minimises what it really was’

Roisin O’Connor’s Good Vibrations podcast

Jill Scott appeared as a guest on 'Roisin O'Connor's Good Vibrations' podcast

Jill Scott: ‘I love seeing a confident woman, in any shape or size’

Good Vibrations with KT Tunstall

KT Tunstall reflects on the ‘unwelcome side’ of her early fame

Ella Eyre is a guest on Roisin O'Connor's Good Vibrations podcast

Ella Eyre: ‘I’ve had to unlearn what I was shown early in my career’

Bon Jovi

Jon Bon Jovi: ‘There have been days where I thought I was done’

News

The Countdown

<p>Tom Cruise and Michelle Monaghan in ‘Mission: Impossible III’</p>

The Countdown

15 times a director walked away from a blockbuster

<p>Overrated?: Daniel Day-Lewis in ‘There Will Be Blood’ and Cillian Murphy in ‘Oppenheimer’</p>

The most overrated films of the 21st century

<p>Glast from the past: A snapshot of the famous festival from 1982</p>

17 of the weirdest things we’ve seen at Glastonbury

<p>Not even music’s greats are immune to writing absolutely terrible songs</p>

13 worst songs by brilliant artists, from The Beatles to Taylor Swift

Independent TV

Rachel practiced ‘white lies’ on family to prepare for The Traitors

Stephen explains why he decided to stay loyal to fellow Traitor Rachel

<p>Stephen and Rachel on 'Traitors'</p>

Two Traitors make history in nail-biting final episode

<p>Rachel</p>

Rachel’s fate decided by chance in The Traitors finale

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lifestyle

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