Taylor Swift's beau Joe Alwyn looks dapper as he poses with Conversations With Friends co-stars

Wilson Chapman editorThis weekend, Britain will celebrate the landmark 70th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s ascension to the throne with Platinum Jubilee weekend, a national bank holiday taking place from Thursday, June 2 to Sunday, June 5.The Queen’s 70th anniversary occurred on Feb. 6, which marks the date where she took the throne at age 25 following the death of her father King George VI. Various celebrations in the U.K.

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard court case, branding it "courtroom porn" and claiming that everyone is "guilty" for watching the trial that played out over the course of six weeks.The American activist's comments came days before the jury announced yesterday that the Pirates of the Caribbean star won the $10million defamation trial against his ex-wife, Amber Heard.Ahead of the jury's explosive verdict, Lewinsky penned an opinion piece sharing her thoughts on the trial.The TV personality condemned the way the trial had been conducted and claimed that "we are guilty" for watching the trial, which was played out for the world to see.She wrote: "Because the trial has also been available live on our screens, we think, subconsciously, that we have a right to look and watch."To judge.To comment."And we end up with this confusing cultural crossover of watching two people (whom we are used to seeing as actors acting on a screen) in a setting—a courtroom—where we would normally expect them to be assuming their characters’ roles," she penned in an article for Vanity Fair.The activist went on to condemn the impact the trial has had on survivors of domestic abuse.She wrote: "It would be sad enough even if we just considered how it has impacted domestic violence survivors or those who have sought strength in the #MeToo movement."However, it's the larger implications for our culture that concern me the most: the ways we have stoked the flames of misogyny and, separately, the celebrity circus," she added.Yesterday, it was announced that the Hollywood actor had won his defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife.Johnny has been awarded $10million in compensation, and $5million in punitive damages after the jury deliberated for three days.Amber,

the Queen was showing the world how it was done. A sovereign who has often found herself the only woman in rooms full of men and whose reign has seen trends for flares, boob tubes and miniskirts come and go several times over, one of Elizabeth II’s great accomplishments is, surely, her iconic style.Her opinions are rarely heard, but her image can be recognised from a mile off, becoming synonymous with everything from colour-blocking to silk headscarves and frame handbags.

Wardrobe Whisperer column, our team will find a solution for every style crisis.I’m going to the Epsom Derby and it’ll be the first time I’ve dressed up in formalwear since the start of the pandemic. I’ve gone down from a 16 to a 14, and want to wear something more modern, but I’m not sure where to begin.- LouiseAfter two years out of the formalwear fray, I can understand why you might feel daunted by the idea of dressing up again.

EXCLUSIVE: On the heels of their Oscar win for The Long Goodbye, Sound Of Metal and Rogue One actor Riz Ahmed and Surge director Aneil Karia are confirmed for a modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic Hamlet, which is being launched by WME Independent at the Cannes market.

 reunited to bring Rooney's debut novel,  to the small screen.Set in Dublin,  follows 21-year-old college student Frances and her former girlfriend and current best friend, Bobbi, as they navigate a complex new relationship with a married couple.Watch on May 15Like Sally Rooney’s other works,  is an intimate character study of complicated individuals, and the ways in which they communicate with one another. Alison Oliver, Joe Alwyn, Sasha Lane and Jemima Kirke star in this new Hulu original series. Keep reading to find out how to watch  premieres on Sunday, May 15.

Joe Alwyn) and Melissa (Jemima Kirke), and embarks on a secret affair with Nick -- forever testing the boundaries and friendships she's put in place. The story, which also stars Sasha Lane as Frances' ex, Bobbi, is told from Frances' perspective through voiceover narration.«One of the reasons I loved Sally's book is because it was so heavily disguised and messy in the best way, and complicated in the best way. And I like the theme she was touching upon and the questions she was provoking about love and happiness and finding love and happiness outside of conventional stuff,» Alwyn told ET's Cassie DiLaura of what initially drew him to the adaptation. «It’s all wrapped up in this beautiful coming-of-age story for Frances and feels like quite a modern love story.

Taylor Swift's boyfriend Joe Alwyn explained working together with the musician was "an accident." Alwyn is credited on at least two songs from her album "Folklore" and a few from "Evermore," although he goes by a pseudonym, William Bowery.  Swift confirmed that the mysterious Bowery was Alwyn after fans began speculating.The musician confirmed that the two had written a few songs together while in COVID-19 quarantine. "It was completely off the cuff, an accident," Alwyn told Vulture about writing the first verse of "Exile." "She said, ‘Can we try and sit down and get to the end together?’ And so we did.

Sally Rooney’s stories of deconstructed yearnings and anxious young adulthoods have been the talk of the literary scene since 2017, when the author’s debut, “Conversations With Friends,” was published to acclaim. Her second novel, “Normal People,” was promptly turned into an angsty but well-acted Hulu miniseries led by captivating then-up-and-comers Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones.

Manori Ravindran International EditorIn another major M&A coup, Fremantle has taken a majority stake in Irish production company Element Pictures, the producers of “Normal People,” “Conversations With Friends” and “The Favourite.”Element Pictures has grown to become one of Europe’s top drama producers, and is managed by co-founders Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe, with offices in Dublin, London and Belfast.The deal was spearheaded by Fremantle group COO and continental Europe CEO Andrea Scrosati and Lorenzo De Maio, of De Maio Entertainment. The deal represents continued investment in European drama from Fremantle, which is owned by Germany’s RTL Group.

In another mega M&A deal, Fremantle has taken a majority stake in Irish The Favourite, Room and Conversations with Friends producer Element Pictures.

Taylor Swift for the first time.The actor and musician, who is dating the pop star, contributed to her 2020 albums ‘Folklore’ and ‘Evermore’ under the pseudonym William Bowery.Swift revealed the identity of her mystery co-writer in November 2020, though Alwyn hadn’t spoken publicly about the arrangement until this month when he opened up to Vulture about it in a new interview.Alwyn gained co-writing credits for the ‘Folklore’ songs ‘Betty’ and ‘Exile’ as well as  ‘Evermore’ cuts ‘Champagne Problems’, ‘Coney Island’ and the record’s title track.The actor told Vulture that he was “messing around” on the piano and was singing what would become the first verse to ‘Exile’ when Swift asked him to help her finish the song.“It was completely off the cuff, an accident. She said, ‘Can we try and sit down and get to the end together?’ And so we did.

Conversations With Friends and Normal People would have attracted a “tiny audience” if they had been made as features instead of TV shows, according to director Lenny Abrahamson, who said program-makers should trust audiences to enjoy “arthouse TV.”

Ready for her close-up! Alison Oliver couldn’t believe her luck when she was cast in Hulu’s Conversations With Friends — having just graduated from college shortly before getting her big break.

A supportive couple! Taylor Swift reacted well to Joe Alwyn’s sex scenes in his new Hulu series, Conversation With Friends. The actor revealed in an interview with Extra that the evermore singer is a big fan of the book from which the series is based on, and expected the sex scenes to come. 

Conversations With Friends, Rooney’s first novel, follows the conversations between two best friends and lovers, Frances and Bobbi, via text, email, instant messaging, and face-to-face interaction. Things get murky when the pair becomes entangled with older married couple Nick and Melissa.In an interview with , Joe Alwyn, who plays Nick in Hulu's adaptation of the 2017 novel, said that he is in a group chat with the actor who starred as Connell in the 2020 series , also an adaptation of a Rooney novel. The name of the chat? The Tortured Man Club.Shortly after Alwyn was cast, a mutual friend created and named the WhatsApp group, “which is I guess a reflection on Connell and Nick,” Alwyn said of the histrionic name.

Joe Alwyn never intended to be a songwriter.

Taylor Swift, but, in a raging case of ‘you win some, you lose some’, has evidently only left us wanting more info.More! we tells you.For those making a home under a rock recently, the Conversations With Friends star has been dating chart-topper Taylor for five years, but the pair of them have managed to keep remarkably shtum on their romance (and whether or not they’re engaged).Fair play to them, we’ll give them that, but Joe’s take on the palaver around the interest is the less they talk about their relationship the less we’ll care about it.Opening up about his ability to keep his life relatively ‘normal’ despite having a headline-grabbing relationship, he told GQ Hype: ‘I think because the precedent was set – that our choice is to be private and not feed that side of things – the more you do that, hopefully, the more that intrusiveness or intrigue drops off.’ As much as he might believe that, it’s clearly not the case, with interest piqued even more so when it was revealed Joe was THE William Bowery credited on several of Taylor’s songs from her albums folklore and evermore.Joe helped pen some of the lyrics which earned Taylor some Grammys, with the Shake It Off singer eventually going on to praise her boyfriend’s songwriting talents.However, according to Joe, the whole thing was ‘accidental’.He said: ‘It was just messing around on a piano and singing badly and being overheard and then thinking, you know, what if we tried to get to the end of it together?’Dubbing the whole process a ‘perk of lockdown’, he added: ‘The idea was that people would just listen to the music rather than focus on the fact that we wrote it together. It was fun to do it together, and I was proud of it.

Joe Alwyn hits the red carpet for a special screening of his new Hulu series, Conversations with Friends, held at Courthouse Hotel Shoreditch on Thursday (May 5) in London, England.

, published on April 30, discussed taking home a Grammy for his to Swift's 2020 album . Yes, the star is with co-writing “Exile” and “Betty,” as well as co-producing “Exile,” Betty,” “My Tears Ricochet,” “August,” “This Is Me Trying,” and “Illicit Affairs.” The couple's collaboration didn’t end there.

An unexpected surprise. Joe Alwyn explained that he doesn’t often think about girlfriend Taylor Swift‘s fame, so he certainly didn’t expect their fun musical collaboration to win a Grammy Award.