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Tom Cruise surprises extreme challenge charity fundraiser during interview

Tom Cruise surprises extreme challenge charity fundraiser during interview

Published by Daniella Wilson

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter A British fundraiser who spent a year undertaking extreme athletic feats for charity has received a surprise commendation from Hollywood star Tom Cruise. Lloyd Kembrey, a facilities manager at the University of Bristol, completed the series of endurance events to gather funds for Jessie May, a children’s hospice charity. His motivation stemmed from the memory of his twin cousins, Francesca and Josephine. Diagnosed with Sanfilippo disease type A at three-and-a-half years old, both sadly passed away in their teens. Hoping to honour them and assist other families facing life-limiting diagnoses, Kembrey tackled several daunting physical challenges. These included completing a 31-mile ice skating ultramarathon in Finland, climbing the equivalent height of Mount Everest on an artificial …

Jamie Bell interview: ‘I should just grow up already, but it’s difficult!’

Jamie Bell interview: ‘I should just grow up already, but it’s difficult!’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Inspired by his new historical movie The Uprising, I’ve just asked Jamie Bell if he was taught about the Peasants’ Revolt in school. It’s maybe the worst question to ask someone who became incredibly famous at the age of 14. “I don’t think I was taught about it,” he says. “But at a certain point I just wasn’t in school. And certainly if I was taught about it, I was not paying attention.” He had other stuff going on, I suppose. It’s been 26 years since Billy Elliot, yet Bell retains the boyish insouciance that made him a star at the turn of the millennium. For playing the County Durham miner’s son who discovers himself through …

Watch: Jenna Bush Hager admits to recent job interview as TODAY guest asks: ‘You’re leaving?’

Watch: Jenna Bush Hager admits to recent job interview as TODAY guest asks: ‘You’re leaving?’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Jenna Bush Hager shocked her on-air guest on Friday, October 2. While interviewing podcaster Nayeema Raza, the TODAY Show host shared a story about a recent job interview, prompting the guest to ask: “What? You’re leaving?” Watch the surprising moment in the video above. Jenna, 44, hosts TODAY with Jenna & Sheinelle the fourth hour of NBC’s morning news program alongside Sheinelle Jones. And throughout her seven years hosting, there have been many changes. © Getty Images for Sandals ResortsJenna and Sheinelle are loving co-hosting together Jenna joined TODAY in 2009 as a news correspondent and contributor. She first debuted as the permanent co-host alongside Hoda Kotb in April 2019, replacing Kathie Lee Gifford. After Hoda left in January 2025, Jenna hosted the fourth hour alone with rotating celebrity co-hosts like Scarlett Johannson, Keke Palmer, and Andy Cohen. Sheinelle made her debut as Jenna’s permanent co-host for TODAY’s 4th Hour on January 12. And while many may ask what Jenna’s next career moves are, she is happy at her desk. © NBCJenna is a staple …

APA Member Interview, Rida Jafar

APA Member Interview, Rida Jafar

Published by Jenni Sidey

Rida Jafar is an MA student in Philosophy at the University of Guelph. She is interested in the ethics and phenomenology of human-machine integration, with a focus on Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs). She also has interests in AI and robot ethics, especially when and where these intersect with cyborg ethics. Link to your website: rida-jafar.github.io What excites you about philosophy? Whenever I’m conversing with someone on a topic, or observing a debate online, and I encounter fallacious arguments, sophistry, or muddled communication in general, I experience this friction in my mind that drives me to figure out where exactly the line of reasoning has broken down and why. Philosophy provides me with the tools to do that. If I were to describe the feeling I get from reading a well-written philosophy paper, it would be like having cool water poured over my mind; the heat produced from the mental friction goes away. The fact that this cooling effect can be applied to the topics I care about most is something I learned in an AI ethics …

Francesca Hong says she regrets CNN interview about Thanksgiving

Francesca Hong says she regrets CNN interview about Thanksgiving

Published by Sam Flores

Francesca Hong, a former democratic socialist candidate in the Wisconsin gubernatorial race, said Friday she regrets her controversial CNN interview in which she stated she wanted to “cancel Thanksgiving.” In an interview with WISN, a local ABC affiliate, anchor Matt Smith reflected on Hong’s time on the campaign trail and asked if there was anything… Source link

Should you bring iced coffee to a job interview? Question brews generational debate

Should you bring iced coffee to a job interview? Question brews generational debate

Published by Sam Flores

What started as a conversation about job interview tips online escalated into a generational debate over whether it’s taboo to show up with an iced coffee to talk to a potential employer. The discourse over the caffeinated beverage gained momentum on TikTok this week after a creator, who goes by @caitlinrecruiter on the platform, shared a video in which she said she believes “when you show up with an iced coffee or an iced latte that this interview is just a stop on your list of errands for the day.” “It looks a little too casual to me,” she said in the video, which she posted Sept. 16. Caitlin Wehniainen, whose profile states she has 16 years of recruiting experience, has just over 1,000 followers on TikTok. But in the last week, her video has been clipped and recirculated by dozens of creators online, who engaged in a heated back-and-forth about whether she’s right. The divide seemed to primarily be between younger and older users — with the former group suggesting Wehniainen’s tip “makes no …

APA Member Interview: Akshay Ganesh

APA Member Interview: Akshay Ganesh

Published by Jenni Sidey

Akshay Ganesh is a high school senior whose work explores the intersection of philosophy, LLMs, education, and learning. He’s the founder of Deskpad, a nonprofit focused on ensuring AI adoption in classrooms preserves student thinking. He hopes to study philosophy in college with a focus on ethics and education. What excites you about philosophy? Philosophy is incredibly exciting to me because it really forces me to question assumptions I would otherwise leave untouched. Earlier in my life, I thought I’d want to study something STEM-adjacent in college, but after taking a philosophy summer course, I realized that the abilities to think and reason that philosophy forces you to develop are universally applicable across every field. Since then, I’ve become especially interested in the ethics of AI in classrooms, where questions about learning and autonomy are becoming increasingly difficult to answer. What are you working on right now? Aside from college applications, the thing I’ve been spending the most time on has been my initiative, Deskpad. I started it at the end of my sophomore year …

Lili Reinhart and Tom Bateman Interview on The Love Hypothesis, Fandom

Lili Reinhart and Tom Bateman Interview on The Love Hypothesis, Fandom

Published by Daniella Wilson

Romantic comedies live and die by the chemistry and charm of the project’s main pairing. For The Love Hypothesis, Prime Video’s latest foray into the genre, it’s an embarrassment of riches on both fronts. Based on the Ali Hazelwood novel of the same name and directed by romcom veteran Claire Scanlon, the film centers around perky Ph.D. candidate Olive Smith (Lili Reinhart) and the notoriously grouchy, young professor Dr. Adam Carlsen (Tom Bateman). The pair find themselves in one of the romance genre’s staple situations — fake dating. The actors knew pretty early one that their chemistry was going to work for the film. “I could tell that he was a professionally trained theater school theatrical actor in the best way, because you brought a depth to a scene that maybe on the page didn’t fully land,” Reinhart, 30, tells The Hollywood Reporter in a chat alongside her co-star. The actress, also an executive producer on the project, remembers hanging up on the chemistry read and speaking with the other producers about how good he …

It’s All Fair Game: Vanity Fair Launches New Interview Series

It’s All Fair Game: Vanity Fair Launches New Interview Series

Published by Sam Flores

Vanity Fair is taking its award-winning journalism to new heights with the launch of Fair Game, an interview series hosted by Global Editorial Director Mark Guiducci. Fair Game invites audiences to join Guiducci for a series of in-depth, wide-ranging conversations with the cast of characters from the world of Vanity Fair, including artists, filmmakers, politicians, Hollywood industry leaders, tech CEOs, and more. The premiere interview featuring Colman Domingo—in which he discusses his long road to Hollywood, the controversy surrounding his role as Joe Jackson in Michael, as well as getting the third season of Euphoria greenlit—is out now. In the coming weeks, the slate of episodes will feature a range of Vanity Fair personalities, including Annie Leibovitz, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Bela Bajaria, Jeremy O. Harris, and more. Fair Game is available on YouTube, wherever you get your podcasts, Vanity Fair’s social platforms and VF.com. “If anyone looks at my career, you’ll see it wasn’t a career of waiting. Because if I waited, then I wouldn’t have the career that I have now,” Domingo said during the …

Interview: Mexican rockers the Warning hit No. 1, defy expectations

Interview: Mexican rockers the Warning hit No. 1, defy expectations

Published by Sam Flores

Growing up, Alejandra Villarreal was accustomed to the dry Mexican heat, trapped inside the small historic venues where she and her sisters would perform as kids. But as temperatures hit 103 degrees outside the Fonda Theatre in Hollywood, she couldn’t help but shout. “¡Ay, qué calor!” she said, swinging her bass guitar. Inside the nearly 100-year-old theater, Alejandra was onstage for a sound check. She ran through distorted, metal-influenced riffs as her sisters — drummer Paulina Villarreal and lead vocalist-guitarist Daniela Villarreal — prepared for the second of three sold-out shows at the Fonda, as the rapidly rising rock band the Warning. The Warning has been shaking the walls of L.A. theaters since the group first landed in the city eight years ago — but this year feels especially monumental for the sisters. Released in August, the band’s most recent album, “Everything’s Falling,” is a snarling, noisy and melodic rock joyride that rarely, if ever, slows down. Written between L.A. and their hometown of Monterrey, the straight-to-the point lyricism documents the Villarreal sisters’ frustrations, anger …