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The Girlfriend stars Olivia Cooke as Cherry Laine, a working-class woman who joins a highly-privileged family.

The Girlfriend airs on Prime Video and the psychological thriller follows Cherry Laine as she is introduced to her new boyfriend Daniel’s (played by Laurie Davidson) mother, Laura (Robin Wright).

As they both battle for Daniel’s affection, Cherry struggles to understand why Laura is so against her.

Cherry actress Olivia Cooke is a 31-year-old star from Oldham, who started performing at the age of eight at the Oldham Theatre Workshop, an after-school drama programme.

She quit education before the end of her A-levels to appear in the drama series Blackout, and then applied for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art but was rejected at the final round of auditions.

Here is all you need to know about her including her previous roles and romances.

Does Olivia Cooke have a boyfriend?

As of the summer of 2025, Cooke was reported to have been dating her House of the Dragon co-star, Ralph Davis.

It is presumed they met on the set of the HBO series, and in 2024 the pair were pictured together in Soho as friends.

In July of that year, Olivia shared photos of the pair on holiday together on her Instagram account, with fans becoming convinced they were dating as they spent more time together.

A year on and in July 2025, they made their relationship public by attending Wimbledon together and kissing for the camera.

What has Olivia Cooke been in?

The star began her career in the BBC series Blackout, as the daughter of Christopher Eccleston’s character.

In 2012, she got an agent in LA and auditioned for a role in Bates Motel, which she landed.

In the same year, she starred in One Direction’s Autumn Term tour video as a student getting a piggyback ride from Harry Styles.

She would go on to star in Steven Spielberg’s science fiction adventure Ready Player One, Life Itself and Vanity Fair.

Most recently, she has starred in House of the Dragon as Alicent Hightower and Slow Horses as Sidonie “Sid” Baker.

Geordie duo Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly have been best pals ever since meeting on the set of Byker Grove, but they once fell out in a row which threatened to end their careers

Ant and Dec are once up again up for Best Presenter at the National Television Awards tonight in what would be an incredible 46th gong from the ceremony for the Geordie duo.

The plucky pair, both 49, have been best pals for years ever since meeting on the set of BBC teen drama, Byker Grove, in the nineties when they played the iconic PJ and Duncan.

They were so close, that they used to live on the same street in London and still holiday together with their respective wives, Ali and Anne-Marie and three kids, Jack, Isla and Wilder. However, in 1995 a boozy argument between the award-winning presenters threatened to end their friendship – and careers.

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On a drunken summer night in Spain, 30 years ago, Ant and Dec came to blows as as they admitted things ‘got ugly’ in their jointly written book, Once Upon a Tyne: Our Story.

Lifting the lid on their friendship and sharing some startling secrets about their shock feud, the presenters explained that the argument happened in the nineties when they were set to appear on GMTV’s Fun in the Sun with Anthea Turner. The show was being filmed live in Torremolinos, where Ant and Dec where promoting their latest musical offering at the time.

Ant wrote in the book: “It was a special summer holiday version of the ITV breakfast show, in 1995, we were promoting Stuck On U. Our tour manager Kim Glover told us we had the day to ourselves before appearing on GMTV the following morning… so we went to the pub.”

Getting in the holiday spirit, the boys ended up having a few too many drinks, and by 10pm, Dec wanted to go to bed because they had an early start the next day.

However, Ant wasn’t ready to call it a night as he remembers asking his pal: “What the hell are you going to bed for?” Dec “stumbled towards the lift,” which Ant admitted “incensed me and I lost it.” He fumed: “Don’t you dare walk away from me when I’m talking to you!”

Dec then began “ranting” at Ant, asking: “Who the hell do you think you are, talking to me like that?” Dec claimed his pal “was really pushing my buttons” as the pair kept arguing in the lift. However, when Ant tried to state his case, Dec put his fingers in his ears, singing: “La la la la, I can’t hear you.” Confessing “that made my blood boil”, Ant admitted he “punched Dec in the chest.”

Dec responded by trying to knock the cap off Ant’s head, revealing: “I didn’t quite hit the target and ended up just punching the peak of his cap.” Ant added: “I proved Dec is rubbish at fighting when he’s had a few.”

A mere two hours later, the pair were in makeup on the breakfast show, refusing to look at each other. But once the cameras were rolling, their closeness returned and the pair claim they have never fought since that drunken moment 30 years ago.

Speaking in 2013, Ant and Dec revealed the key to their firm friendship after spending a huge part of their life together.

Speaking from his home, which was three doors down from Dec at the time, Ant told the Guardian: “Fundamentally, we’ve got the same relationship you see on TV, and I think that’s what keeps us sane, because if we had pretended to be somebody else for this length of time, it would have all gone t*** up by now.”

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Girls Aloud star Cheryl looked back at her career in a video promoting Nivea recently, in which she shared that she had once not paid much attention to some advice she received

A message for the younger generation has been shared by Cheryl, who has revealed that she ignored advice given to her years ago. She spoke about the guidance she’d received whilst reflecting on moments from earlier in her career.

Cheryl, now 42, rose to fame on Popstars: The Rivals back in 2002, which led to the formation of Girls Aloud. She’s continued to perform alongside her bandmates in the years since then, as well as having enjoyed success as a solo artist.

The former X Factor judge looked back at three moments from her career recently, including one from 2012, and said that she hadn’t listened to a warning she was given at the time. She’s now issued the same advice to younger fans.

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She took a “trip down memory lane” to promote skincare brand Nivea. Cheryl was announced as the face of its new Cellular Epigenetics Age Rewind Serum last month and fronts the campaign, which has marked her TV comeback following her late former partner Liam Payne’s death.

In a video promoting the product, which was shared a few days ago on Instagram, Cheryl “looks back at her skin journey through the years”. She’s seen going through a photo album, with her then reflecting on each of the entries.

The first photo in the album showed Cheryl towards the start of her career. She said about it: “Okay, wow! What do we have here? What do I see? I see a lot of youth and innocence maybe here. On the skin as well as in the eyes.

“Before I joined Girls Aloud, I never used to wear foundation. I don’t think I really paid much attention to the skin in general because I never had to. But the stage makeup, the long nights, long days, probably a bit dehydrated. Everything plays a part.”

She then mentioned bandmate Kimberley Walsh, saying: “So [she] had a lot of tips when I first joined the group. She always had [a] lovely foundation base. She always had really nice skin and I learned a lot from her. Actually, funnily enough, we all used to wear the thick blue Nivea cream.”

Cheryl was then shown a photo of herself on her A Million Lights solo tour in 2012. She reacted: “Oh! This was a good period of time for me – enjoying being on stage and enjoying what I do. But, yeah the makeup and the skin … my poor, poor skin. The worst of it is that I didn’t do anything to rectify it, really.”

She continued by saying that she hadn’t taken advice from older women seriously at the time. She said: “I did have older women around that would say ‘make sure you take care of your skin now. Y’know you’ll thank yourself when you get older and make sure you wear your SPF’. And you’re like ‘yeah yeah’. You hear it but you don’t listen.”

Cheryl then issued a message for fans in the video. She told viewers: “I promise you, to the younger generation and the young women out there now, taking care of your skin now, you will thank yourself as you get older.”

The final photo showed Cheryl performing at Mighty Hoopla festival in 2021. She said: “Aww, here we are. I love this. This actually isn’t that long ago. Maybe … it’s maybe three years ago? At a performance in Mighty Hoopla.”

She added: “And yeah, you can see by now that I’ve started to take notice of all the data and the science we have to prove the different stresses that can affect your skin. By this era, I’ve definitely started taking care of the skin and based on the science.”

Cheryl concluded by saying: “It was really nice to take a little trip down memory lane. I always like to look back on the old photos just to see how far I’ve come personally, spiritually and epigenetically. It’s been a long road.”

Strictly Come Dancing professional Dianne Buswell and her boyfriend Joe Sugg have been together since 2018, and fans are convinced she’s now given him a public engagement nudge

Strictly Come Dancing’s professional dancer Dianne Buswell, who won the series last year with Chris McCausland, has sparked engagement rumours with her long-term boyfriend Joe Sugg after dropping what fans believe to be a public engagement hint on social media.

The Strictly star first crossed paths with YouTube sensation Joe Sugg when they were paired up together on the dance show in 2018. Despite being bombarded with dating speculations throughout their time on the programme, it wasn’t until they secured second place in the finale they officially confirmed their relationship. Since then, followers have been treated to glimpses of their life together on social media.

This has included trips to Australia to visit Dianne’s family, as well as spending quality time with Joe’s sister, fellow YouTube star Zoe Sugg, and her two daughters, while also sharing snippets of them dancing together.

The couple recently revealed their move to a lavish £3.5 million mansion in West Sussex in 2023, after admitting their previous residence required too much work when living there for two and a half years.

Despite owning two luxurious properties together, fans are increasingly eager to know if wedding bells are in the future for the pair, especially as they’ve both hinted at wanting children in the coming years.

In a recent TikTok post, Dianne decided to address the engagement speculation head-on, leading fans to believe she was publicly nudging Joe towards a proposal.

In the clip, Dianne is seen sitting in the back of a car, staring directly into the camera as music plays. Suddenly, some familiar lyrics can be heard.

“If it hadn’t been for Cotton Eye’d Joe, I’d been married a long time ago. Where did you come from, where did you go?” the singer croons as Dianne lifts her left hand to reveal an absence of engagement and wedding rings.

Strictly fans will instantly recognise ‘Cotton Eyed Joe’ as the tune that accompanied Joe and Dianne’s first dance together on the show – a lively Charleston.

The duo reprised the performance during the finale. Throughout their relationship, Dianne has often referred to the song when discussing her partner.

The comments section of Dianne’s video was soon flooded with speculation, with many wondering if the clip was a playful jab at Joe for not having popped the question yet.

“I feel like you’re trying to tell us something here,” one viewer remarked, while another quipped: “Take the hint Joseph.”

“This is so iconic,” another fan gushed, with several other fans also dubbing Dianne ‘iconic’ for her post.

Hollywood bosses are in a bidding war to create a huge big-budget movie on David Bowie’s life, including his raunchy private life and one night stand while he was married

Hollywood bosses are reportedly in a bidding war to create a biopic movie about music legend David Bowie, which promises to give a detailed look into his life, including his raunchy private life and launch into fame.

Suzi Ronson, the wife of Mick Ronson who was Bowie’s right-hand man, has revealed her autobiography is being turned into a huge big-budget movie. The book, Me And Mr Jones: My Life With David Bowie And The Spiders From Mars came out last year, and now Suzi is hoping it will be a ‘great movie’.

During a talk at the first Ziggyfest Bowie fan event, Suzi said she was excited about seeing who won the rights for the movie. She said: “The book has now been auctioned to be made into a major motion picture. It hasn’t been bought but we are hoping it will be soon, and it will be a great movie about the Ziggy Stardust days and his rise to fame.”

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The movie is also set to include her one-night stand with the superstar, which happened while he was still married to his first wife, Angie. She told The Sun: “The bedroom at his home was pink with a gold ceiling. Everybody thought he was so gay. I was curious about him. I think Angie set me up.”

She added: “I went to do her hair on a Wednesday and she said: ‘I have got to look fabulous. I am going on a date tonight.’ David called me and said: ‘Why don’t you come over and do my hair?’ So I went up to London, had a great meal, and he kind of seduced me. David used to mark his territory. He was definitely flamboyant in that regard.”

Suzi, best known for creating David Bowie’s iconic Ziggy Stardust look, revealed the secrets behind the transformation as she said: “I used to do David’s mum’s hair and I got introduced to Angie to cut David’s hair off. I never thought I would be talking about him 52 years later.”

Revealing how the orange spiked hair came about, she said: “He showed me a photo of a girl with spiky hair and said, ‘Can you do that?’ I thought, ‘This is a girl’s hairstyle. I didn’t have the dye. No one had products in those days. So I went away and found the colour and used this anti-dandruff treatment called Guard, and it set hair like stone.”

She added: “With that bright red hair, he looked incredible. He looked like Ziggy Stardust. The ladies loved Bowie and the band in their glam rock outfits.”

This US skincare brand has just launched in the UK, and one product in particular is already proving popular: a lightweight moisturiser with impressive wrinkle-reducing results

Lots of products promise to miraculously reduce wrinkles, however it can be hard to know which ones are really worth buying – but we’ve found a newly launched lightweight moisturiser with impressive clinical results, before-and-after photos and customer reviews all praising its skin-enhancing benefits.

Viral US skincare brand INNBEAUTY Project recently launched over here in the UK in Sephora stores and on the Sephora website, much to the joy of beauty fans, and one product in particular has grabbed our attention for its non-greasy texture and noticeable results: its Recharge Gel Cream.

In the brand’s tests, 100% of users saw a significant decrease in wrinkles after seven days of using this, and it’s clinically proven to deeply hydrate skin by 53% after just one application.

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INNBEAUTY Project’s Recharge Gel Cream, priced at £49, is a hydrating moisturiser containing a combination of smart ingredients: orchid stem cells, peptides and a plant-derived retinol alternative. Together these work to target fine lines and wrinkles, uneven skin texture, dullness and loss of firmness, in apparently as little as one week.

And it’s not just INNBEAUTY Project that’s saying this – this cream has dozens of five-star reviews on the Sephora website, praising its results on the skin:

“I am loving this Recharge Smoothing & Plumping Moisturizer!” one person wrote. “I’ve been using it for about a week now and am already seeing some nice results, specifically on my forehead. It’s visibly reducing the look of my fine lines and makes my skin look more supple. I can’t wait to see how my skin looks after continued use.”

“This moisturizer is such a gem!” another agreed. “The texture feels silky and lightweight, but it gives my skin deep hydration that lasts all day. I love that it sinks in quickly without leaving a greasy or sticky layer—perfect under make-up or on its own. My skin looks plump, smooth, and has a nice healthy glow after using it consistently.”

“I’ve been using the Recharge Plumping Gel Cream and I’m honestly impressed,” a third echoes. “It feels super refreshing, hydrates right away, and makes my skin look smoother and more radiant. Within a week, I noticed my fine lines were softer and my skin barrier felt stronger.”

Some, however, weren’t so keen on the packaging: “The only this I don’t like about this product is the packaging,” one comment reads. “It’s way too big and bulky for 50ml that we’re getting.”

Got drier skin and after a richer alternative? Beauty buffs may have found just that with this Elizabeth Grant Collagen Re-Inforce 3D Advanced Face Lift Night Cream, which has shoppers exclaiming, “Everyone thinks I’ve had Botox.”

Available to shop at Debenhams, this hydrating night cream is formulated with five different types of collagen and Torricelumn that work to fortify the skin while visibly improving the appearance of skin firmness and facial contours, while smoothing lines and restoring plumpness to the complexion.

On the cheaper end, this No7 Lift & Luminate TRIPLE ACTION Night Cream is available for £29.95, or this L’Oreal Paris Revitalift Laser Face Moisturiser Triple Action Anti-Ageing Night Cream for £29.99.