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Rebel Wilson praised for memoir “helping” fan with body dysmorphia

Rebel Wilson became emotional recently while hearing about the impact of her new memoir, Rebel Rising.The Pitch Perfect star spoke with Chris Evans on his Virgin Radio UK show on Wednesday (May 1), where she discussed her highly anticipated new memoir, which has now officially been published.While on the show, Wilson was able to hear directly the impact of her book on a reader, as one of Evans’ team members, named Vassos, shared with them a personal story.Vassos spoke with Wilson about how her book had helped support his friend, who had suffered with body image issues.He explained how he had been reading a segment of the book where Wilson writes a letter to her body. “Within a minute” Vassos got a phonecall from his friend, who “always had issues with body dysmorphia”.
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Millions of Brits feel misrepresented in film culture - due to overused stereotypes
Nearly half of British adults feel misrepresented in film culture and struggle to relate to the characters they see on screen – due to overused stereotypes and a lack of diversity, research has found.Nearly a third of film fans (30%) have been left offended by a movie cliché – with 29% even refusing to watch a film due to an offensive or outdated stereotype.The poll of 2,000 adults, under the age of 35, found that over half (57%) felt these tropes are overused in films – such as overly flamboyant LGBTQ+ characters, like Damien in the 2004 hit teen comedy, Mean Girls.The research was commissioned by confectionary brand M&Ms as part of its global “FUNd” initiative, designed to champion diversity and inclusion and create a sense of belonging.Femi Kolade, Head of Studies at London Film School, which is part of the initiative, said: “The mainstream film industry has been dominated for too long by a narrative that excludes so many people’s lived experiences, and reduces all of our specific and vibrant diversity to a few standardised, often negative, and always limited representations of who we are today, who we were yesterday, and who we’ll become in the future.“This must change, and this timely research and this important campaign shows yet again how desperate mainstream audiences are to see that change.”Oversexualised women is the most common stereotype young adults feel they see to much in movies – for example Alice Eve in the first Star Trek reboot film, and 1999 rom-com “She’s All That”, which conveys the message that you have to be attractive to be popular.This was followed by females being depicted as weak or too sensitive, and foreign characters’ broken English used for comedy – such as Sacha Baron Cohen in the Borat
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Sacha Baron Cohen criticises social media platforms for not banning Russian state TV
Sacha Baron Cohen has called out social media platforms for not blocking Russia’s state TV network amid the country’s invasion of Ukraine.In a post on Twitter, the actor criticised the CEOs of Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube – Mark Zuckerbeg, Parag Agrawal, Sundar Pichai and Susan Wojcick respectively – and urged them to remove the network RT from their platforms.“Putin just bombed a children’s hospital, but @Facebook, @Instagram, @Twitter & @YouTube are still showing Russia’s state-run RT,” Cohen wrote.“Why are you profiting off Putin’s propaganda?! Remove Russia RT from your platforms NOW!”Hey Mark, @paraga,@sundarpichai, @SusanWojcicki Putin just bombed a children’s hospital, but @Facebook, @instagram @Twitter & @YouTube are still showing Russia's state-run RTWhy are you profiting off Putin's propaganda?!Remove Russia RT from your platforms NOW! pic.twitter.com/W0wkWKAZpX— Sacha Baron Cohen (@SachaBaronCohen) March 9, 2022NME has reached out to representatives for all the respective companies.As posted on the updates blog for Meta – the rebrand of Facebook who also own Instagram – the company states they have restricted access to RT and Sputnik in Ukraine, the UK and across the EU.In an update on March 1, the blog reads: “In addition to restricting access to RT and Sputnik across the EU, we are now globally demoting content from Facebook Pages and Instagram accounts from Russian state-controlled media outlets and making them harder to find across our platforms. “We have also begun to demote posts that contain links to Russian state-controlled media websites on Facebook.
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