14February 2021
With Valentine’s Day quickly approaching, it’s likely you’re either whipping out the cookbooks, dusting off your lingerie, and prepping a lockdown seduction, or otherwise spending your time planning a sexy single night in (more on that here).
For those grappling with the loneliness that comes with almost one whole year of enforced celibacy, then the new and extremely wholesome campaign from Diesel could possibly send you further down the rabbit hole.
Featuring eight real-life couples reconnecting after time apart,
When Together celebrates intimate connections and love – and marks recently appointed creative director Glenn Martens’ first campaign for the Italian denim connoisseurs. Back to Tinder it is.
Help! I’ve lived with my boyfriend through lockdown and we annoy each other too much to be sexual.
Slayyyter: It’s tough during this pandemic if you are living with a significant other, because everyone definitely needs their space. If you find yourselves annoying each other too much try to have some alone time, go for walks, maybe drive to a park and read for a while. Even though you live together there are still ways to have some space, so try to do your own thing during the day and it might help boost the intimacy later when you are together!
In a shocking twist of fate, Veronica Green tested positive for coronavirus and so was unable to return to the series. Her climbing narrative arc from the previous four episodes was brutally cut short, as so much has been during the pandemic. However, we were reassured she is allowed to return next season. To replace her, the queens were told they could vote to return one of three contestants who had already been told to sashay away: they were Joe Black, Asttina, and Cherry Valentine. Despite Cherry mentioning quite pointedly that she had been working as a nurse throughout the pandemic, she didn’t attract a single vote. So much for valuing key workers – hope she savoured the claps every Thursday last April. In the end, Joe Black was voted back into the competition, perhaps hoping to regain some valour after being controversially sent home after falling at episode one’s first hurdle.
13February 2021
Donald Glover and Phoebe Waller-Bridge are set to take the titular roles in an upcoming reboot of
Mr & Mrs Smith. Led by Amazon Studios and New Regency – the company behind the original, 2005 film starring Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt – the new series will also see the two stars executive produce.
The news comes courtesy of Glover and Waller-Bridge, who posted the announcement in separate Instagram stories, subsequently shared by Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke, who also credits
Fargo’s Francesca Sloan as a co-creator.
“Talk about the dream team!” says Salke in a statement, reported by
Variety. “Donald and Phoebe are two of the most talented creators and performers in the world. It’s truly a dream for us, as it will be for our global audience, to have these two forces of nature collaborating as a powerhouse creative team.”