‘Love Actually’ Filmmaker Richard Curtis’ ‘Christmas Actually’ Show Unveils Hosts, Guests

Love Actually today.In the 2003 rom-com, Knightley was 18 years old when she played the part of Juliet, who married Peter, played by a 26-year-old Chiwetel Ejiofor. Mark meanwhile, who is in love with Juliet, was played by a 30-year-old Andrew Lincoln.The film’s director has since addressed the controversial age gap in an interview with LADbible, where he admitted how it “didn’t seem too peculiar” at the time.“I’m really interested in whether or not I would think ‘don’t do that’ now, ” Curtis said.

It was released 20 years ago, but watching Love Actually over the Christmas period has become as much of a tradition as snogging under the mistletoe and overcooking the turkey. Somehow, we never tire of seeing a distraught Karen (Emma Thompson) sob in her bedroom after discovering the necklace her husband Harry, played by the late, great Alan Rickman, bought her for Christmas was actually a gift for his beautiful new assistant Mia (Heike Makatsch).

Love After Lockup couple Louie Fojut and Melissa Picariello’s relationship is at a critical point. During Friday night’s Season Finale, Louie’s mom, Donna Fojut, makes a shady attempt to make sure Melissa and Louie’s relationship stops before it even has time to get started. Is this the end of the road for them?Donna Fojut has made her feelings abundantly clear about how she feels about her son Louie Fojut and Melissa Picariello’s relationship.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Genies, at least in pop culture, have long been comic foils. Way back in 1940, in “The Thief of Bagdad,” Rex Ingram played Djinn, the movie’s larger-than-life genie — 100 feet tall in his ponytail and red diaper ­— as a sly, laughing soul man of lighthearted effrontery.

Stephen Rodrick In the years before Twitter was euthanized, I’d patiently wait for the onset of the holiday season, and the renewal in my feed of the great “Love Actually” Debate. Every year, the best and brightest of the world — middle management apparatchiks, underemployed magazine writers and hall of fame doomscrollers — would chime in, mostly on the nein side, and make their arguments with eloquence. My favorite was ‘You’re a fucking idiot.’ That one I heard a lot.

Netflix has just released the full list of movies and television shows being removed from the streaming service in December 2023.

EXCLUSIVE: The behavior of a close compatriot of convicted South African rapist and paedophile Dawie de Villiers will be placed under the microscope in a Showmax true crime series airing next month.

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Here they come again, those holiday perennials. Movies, both good and bad, that year after year find their way back into theaters, onto small screens and deep into stockings that still get stuffed with digital discs.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Some innovators try to devise a gadget that changes the world. Others hope to solve a global social ill. Sarah Sherman is eager to bring fake vomit on “Saturday Night Live” into the modern age.

Attention, Islanders! Love Island USA isn’t going anywhere.

A new version of Love Island has recently burst onto our screens – Love Island Games, bringing with it lots of drama and craziness. In the show, previous contestants from other series around the world are given a chance to redeem themselves and try to emerge as the winners. Some surprising moments have occurred so far and it remains to be seen what else might happen as the series continues to unfold.

Tanyel Revan has announced that she is engaged, just ten months after she appeared on Love Island. The TV star, 27, reunited with her now-fiance Ediz, 31, after she left the villa after failing to find love during her stint on the ITV2 show. However, it was not long before she and Ediz had rekindled their romance, which had ended some time before her appearance on the dating show, and she later left fans shocked when she declared she had found her "soulmate" shortly after leaving the villa.

Giannina Gibelli and Blake Horstmann are expecting their first child together.The reality show power couple each shot to fame in different romance shows, with Giannina, 30, appearing in Love is Blind, and Blake, 34, in Bachelor Nation. And despite not finding lasting love on the respective shows, the happy couple started dating last year, and are now expecting their first child. Sharing the exciting news to Instagram, Giannina wrote: "First comes love, then comes baby H - we’re so grateful that life has led us here and over the moon to be parents to our sweet baby come spring 2024!" Fans were quick to congratulate the couple, with one writing: "And just like that… THIS is why things happen how they happen..

Former Love Island winner Jack Fincham has returned to his old job after being banned from driving for three years. The 31-year-old won the ITV2 dating show back in 2018 while coupled with then-girlfriend Dani Dyer.The couple split their £50,000 cash prize after being crowned winners but ended up splitting themselves in 2019, with Jack admitting "some things aren't meant to be" at the time. But since then, Jack has confessed he was on a downward spiral since his shot to stardom more than four years ago, hitting a number of headlines in the past year due to a series of arrests.

Andrew Walker is a heartthrob on screen on Hallmark Channel, and is certainly one in real-life to wife Cassandra Troy!

Married At First Sight UK star Peggy Rose has enjoyed a night out partying with The Only Way Is Essex and Love Island stars at a Playboy x Misspap event. She joined a celebrity guest list at a party at Manchester's MNKY House to celebrate the fashion collaboration between the two brands that launched on Thursday and was photographed posing with TOWIE stars Chloe Brockett and Junaid Ahmed.

Maura Higgins had a very 'awkward' reunion with her ex, Curtis Pritchard, on Love Island Games after he was the third contestant to be sent packing from the villa. Maura, who first shot to fame on the 2019 series of Love Island, is currently the social media ambassador for the spin-off show.

Love Island Games host Maya Jama has been flaunting her stunning figure in a bikini while on holiday. The 29 year old shared a snap on Instagram stories, where she's seen rocking a black, white and yellow leopard print bikini top with black bottoms. She also posted another picture from her recent fashion campaign with Dolce and Gabbana, which was tagged by a fan: "@mayajama slaying the windows in Paris." Maya, who is back together with British rapper Stormzy, revealed she's in Dubai on a break from filming the new Love Island Games series in Fiji.

Maya Jama is currently hosting a new version of the dating show Love Island!