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Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård, and Elizabeth Debicki Cozy Up at the ‘Wicker’ 2026 New York After-Party

Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård, and Elizabeth Debicki Cozy Up at the ‘Wicker’ 2026 New York After-Party

Published by Sam Flores

As the party winded down, guests plucked final bites off silver platters and marveled at how tall Skarsgård truly is in person—his nearly six-foot-five frame barely fit under the bar’s low ceilings. Many viewers will flock to Wicker to catch a glimpse of Skarsgård’s timbered bod (queue Taylor Swift’s “Wood”), but after toiling over scenes in Hungary last year, on a set built to resemble a little seaside village, the cast and crew hope viewers take away much more from the romance. To Debicki, true love reveals who we are. “If you’re lucky enough to get a person in your life that holds a mirror up to you, it’s both confronting and it should be a kind of reckoning,” she said. “But it also is the place that you can learn how to be a person and be the best version of yourself you’ve been.” No cast photo is truly complete without the Wicker Husband himself joining in. Marion Curtis / StarPix for BlackBear And while some might be questioning the rise of sentient-object romance, …

Olivia Colman surprises as Miu Miu model at Paris Fashion Week

Olivia Colman surprises as Miu Miu model at Paris Fashion Week

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 Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Olivia Colman has made an unexpected turn as a runway model, appearing in Miu Miu’s spring/summer 2027 show at Paris Fashion Week. The Oscar-winning British actor wore a black leather blazer with a matching knee-length skirt on the royal purple runway. She joined a star-studded cast that included Emma Corrin, Gigi Hadid and Jamie Bell. Corrin’s outfit was a mottled brown leather jacket over a printed shirt and tiny white shorts. Hadid appeared in a diamante-panelled midi skirt, cropped grey top and New Balance x Miu Miu trainers. Olivia Colman at the Miu Miu after-party (Getty) Bell was dressed …

Coronation Street star Olivia Frances Brown promises “comeuppance” in Jodie story

Coronation Street star Olivia Frances Brown promises “comeuppance” in Jodie story

Published by Daniella Wilson

Coronation Street’s Olivia Frances Brown has teased that someone is about to get their “comeuppance” when the long-running feud between Jodie Ramsey and her half-sister Shona Platt (Julia Goulding) finally erupts next week, in scenes that climax with a gunshot ringing out across the cobbles. Frances Brown, who plays Jodie, confirmed the showdown would reach a dramatic peak but kept the outcome firmly under wraps. “It’s definitely been a long time coming for it to blow up between Jodie and Shona,” she said. “Let’s just say… somebody is about to get their comeuppance and you’ll just need to watch to find out!” Jodie has spent months plotting to replace Shona in both her family and her marriage to David Platt, gaslighting her sister and manipulating those around her, as Jodie seeks revenge for the time Shona ran away from home as a teenager, leaving Jodie to deal with their dad alone. When their feud finally reaches its breaking point, one of the sisters is pushed to their limit and a gunshot rings out, with the …

Olivia Dean’s Label Sued Over Bill Withers’ ‘Just the Two of Us’

Olivia Dean’s Label Sued Over Bill Withers’ ‘Just the Two of Us’

Published by Daniella Wilson

A new lawsuit has alleged that Olivia Dean’s song “I’ve Seen It,” from her breakout album The Art Of Loving, stole from Bill Wither’s iconic track “Just The Two of Us.” Mattie Music Group, the publisher of Wither’s music catalog, claims in court documents filed in California on Thursday that similarities between Dean’s 2025 song and Wither’s 1981 hit are “obvious and inescapable.” “The number, character, and arrangement of the shared musical features are so striking that they support an interference that the similarities did not result from coincidence, independent creation, or reliance on common musical elements,” reads the complaint, per court documents obtained by The Hollywood Reporter. Mattie Music Group claims they first heard “I’ve Seen It” in August 2026 and listened to the song “several times” before hiring a musicologist, Alexander Stewart, Ph.D., to perform a “musicological analysis and comparison” of the two songs. It was determined that Dean’s song “copied in large and significant part” Wither’s “Just the Two of Us” and stole its “distinctively protectable melody,” the lawsuit reads. The publisher …

Bill Withers’ team accuses Olivia Dean of plagiarising ‘Just the Two of Us’

Bill Withers’ team accuses Olivia Dean of plagiarising ‘Just the Two of Us’

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 inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Brit Award winner Olivia Dean has been accused of copying Bill Withers’ hit “Just The Two of Us” in a new US lawsuit. Mattie Music Group, which owns the rights to Withers’ back catalogue, filed a lawsuit against Capitol Records claiming that Dean and her fellow songwriters copied the track “in large and significant part” when creating her song “I’ve Seen It”. Dean wrote the song with Bastian Langebæk and Max Wolfgang, releasing it as the final track on her second studio album, The Art of Loving, last September. The album topped the music charts in the UK, Australia, Germany and other countries, and went on to win Album of the Year at the Brit Awards and MOBO …

Slow Horses director says Olivia Cooke’s return adds something different

Slow Horses director says Olivia Cooke’s return adds something different

Published by Daniella Wilson

*Warning – contains spoilers for Slow Horses season 6 episode 2.* Back in August, Slow Horses fans got a big, welcome surprise, when it was announced that Olivia Cooke would be returning as Sidonie ‘Sid’ Baker in season 6. The character hadn’t been seen since she was shot in the head in season 2. At the end of that season, Roddy Ho (Christopher Chung) intimated that she could be alive somewhere, but nothing has been heard since regarding her whereabouts. Now, the second episode of season 6 has been released, and it ended with Sid’s return, appearing at the top of the stairs in River’s (Jack Lowden) grandfather, the late David Cartwright’s (Jonathan Pryce) house. River had thought his villainous father Frank, played by Hugo Weaving, would be there, but was shocked to see Sid instead. “It was an absolute treat that we got to do that, because she was so good in season 1, but in it so briefly,” director Adam Randall said of Cooke’s return, when speaking with Radio Times. “And I thought …

Olivia Colman and Susan Sarandon confirmed for new Channel 4 spy drama

Olivia Colman and Susan Sarandon confirmed for new Channel 4 spy drama

Published by Daniella Wilson

The cast of Channel 4’s upcoming series Army of Shadows has expanded, with the likes of Olivia Colman and Susan Sarandon joining the fray. The six-part series, which is coming to our screens courtesy of MobLand creator Ronan Bennett as well as Studiocanal, Two Cities Television and Channel 4, will tell the story of a near-future authoritarian Britain under de facto American occupation. Colman (The Favourite) and Sarandon’s (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) roles are yet to be announced. Also joining the ensemble cast are Leila Farzad (I Hate Suzie), Luther Ford (The Crown), Amara Okereke (In the Lost Lands) and Patrick O’Kane (The Day of the Jackal). Other new additions include Anjli Mohindra (The Lazarus Project), Ed Ashley (Knight of the Seven Kingdoms) and Zoë Telford (The Crow Girl). They join the previously announced Paddy Considine, America Ferrera, Alex Hassell and Kit Harington. Kit Harington will appear alongside Sarandon and Colman. JC Olivera/Deadline via Getty Images The new series has been inspired by Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1969 film and Joseph Kessel’s seminal book of the same …

Taylor Swift Makes Surprise Appearance at the Emmys 2026—With the Help of Both Olivia Bensons

Taylor Swift Makes Surprise Appearance at the Emmys 2026—With the Help of Both Olivia Bensons

Published by Sam Flores

As any Swiftie worth their “22” bowler hat knows, there are always clues if you know where to look for them. And at the 2026 Emmys, host Mariska Hargitay, drawing on her storied history as TV detective Olivia Benson on Law & Order: SVU, certainly knows where to look for Taylor Swift. In a pre-taped sketch, Hargitay (as Benson) walked her team through a yarn wall of Easter eggs, trying to determine whether Swift would attend the night’s ceremony. Then another notable detective entered the scene to crack the case once and for all: Swift herself, her cat, also named Olivia Benson, in her arms. Mariska Hargitay, Taylor Swift, and Olivia Benson (cat) appear on screen during the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theatre at LA Live in Los Angeles on September 14, 2026.PATRICK T. FALLON/Getty Images “Maybe she’s gonna do one of those cool pre-taped sketch things to support the host,” she said, slyly. Asked whether she thinks Swift would sing, she offered a firm “No.” And, because it wouldn’t be a …

Love Felt Like This by Julie Olivia

Love Felt Like This by Julie Olivia

Published by Jenni Sidey

Nobody performs Bernie Bird alone. A puppeteer with one arm up inside the head and the other buried in the bird’s left hand has run out of arms, so a second person kneels beside her, slides an arm into the right hand, and becomes that hand for as long as the camera runs. No signal passes between them. They simply know. Beverly Lark has been doing this since she was small enough to sit on her grandfather’s workshop floor, and it is the single most revealing fact about her, because Love Felt Like This by Julie Olivia spends four hundred pages on a woman who will pour her savings, her sleep and her whole nervous system into a show that literally cannot be performed by one person, while refusing every offer of help that arrives anywhere else in her life. The Two-Person Bird at the Heart of Love Felt Like This That image is the whole argument of Love Felt Like This by Julie Olivia, and it keeps returning. Beverly bought the rights to Birds …

Olivia Attwood, Cat Deeley, Stacey Solomon and more

Olivia Attwood, Cat Deeley, Stacey Solomon and more

Published by Daniella Wilson

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