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Strictly’s Giovanni Pernice shares loved-up photo with girlfriend Molly Brown after reigniting romance

Strictly’s Giovanni Pernice shares loved-up photo with girlfriend Molly Brown after reigniting romance

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Giovanni Pernice and his model girlfriend Molly Brown posed for a romantic new couples’ selfie that they both shared to social media on Sunday. The blonde beauty first posted the snapshot to her Instagram Stories and her beau soon followed. It showed Molly pouting to the camera, with her long locks flowing loose past her shoulders.  The Strictly star stood behind her, wearing a black sweatshirt and matching baseball cap and looking into the camera as he planted a kiss on her head.  You may also likeWATCH: Strictly star Giovanni Pernice’s sweet tribute to Rose Ayling-Ellis amid fan reunion hopes The model captioned the image simply by tagging her boyfriend and adding a white heart emoji. Giovanni re-posted the image to his own Stories, adding three red love heart emojis as he did so.  The star’s fans were no doubt surprised to recently discover that Gio and Molly appeared to have re-kindled their romance after deleting all traces of each other from social media a few weeks earlier.  © InstagramGiovanni and Molly are so affectionate …

‘I thought we’d stormed the citadel, but we hadn’t’: Claudette Johnson on blazing a trail for Black artists – and the joy of reigniting her career | Art

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There is a crackly tape recording of Claudette Johnson addressing Britain’s first ever Black Art Convention in Wolverhampton in 1982. It is one of those stray recovered moments in the national conversation that passing time has made electric. Johnson was 22, and her voice on the recording is tentative but spirited as she goes through slides of the new paintings she has been making as a student at the city’s polytechnic – mostly big, bold canvases of Black women – and sets them beside more familiar images from the canon of western art: Paul Gauguin’s “exotic” South Sea islanders, say, or Édouard Manet’s Olympia, in which a Black servant almost disappears into the shadows beside the spotlit white nude in the foreground. On the tape, Johnson’s small voice makes a determined case for the idea that what she was doing in her second-year fine art course in the Midlands had never been done before, at least in Britain. “Black women have been presented as people who did not have anything to offer in themselves but …