‘Un Couple’ Review: Frederick Wiseman’s Stylistic Exercise Is Pleasant, Albeit Plain [Venice]

THEY are the fab four who have the power to turn household names into dancefloor superstars. Shirley Ballas, Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse and Anton Du Beke have their scoring paddles poised, ready to welcome the Class of 2022 to Strictly. As BBC One prepares to launch the 20th series tomorrow, Felicity Cross asks the judges to reveal their favourite contestants, most memorable performances and dream dance partner.

TV’S Queue Two faced the nation again yesterday on This Morning – and many viewers thought Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield were showing the strain of the past few days on their faces. Fans said presenter Holly was unusually subdued — and some even claimed it appeared she had been crying. Alongside Phil, the usually bubbly and chatty host appeared more restrained as they interviewed Strictly Come Dancing judge Anton Du Beke and the cast of new TV show Dated And Related.

SHE may have been diagnosed with what she calls “the Carlsberg of breast cancers” but Sarah Cawood says her boobs are still her greatest asset. And the former TV presenter, who hosted Top Of The Pops, The Girlie Show and Live & Kicking during the height of her fame, believes she could have boosted her career if she had posed for more saucy lads’ mags in the Nineties. Sarah, 50, reckons she could have bagged bigger jobs if she got her kit off, but says her boyfriend at the time, Bluetones guitarist Adam Devlin, held her back.

A FORMER Bake Off star has revealed the "well-oiled machine" behind-the-scenes which helps bakers succeed on the Channel 4 show. Selasi Gbormittah, 36, shot to fame on the seventh series of the programme in 2016, when it appeared on the BBC. During his time on the show, the Ghanaian-born baker left fans swooning with his chilled approach to cooking.

GOGGLEBOX fan-favourites the Malones have welcomed a new member of the family, as they confirmed the arrival of their new puppy Tilly. The Malones recently welcomed a new puppy to the family and confirmed the news in an adorable snap on their Twitter. "We are proud to announce our new addition, Tilly, isn't she beautiful?" the family tweeted alongside a picture of the adorable puppy.

A new “Star Wars” show is upon us. That’s right, with the release of the first three episodes of Disney+’s “Andor,” Editor-In-Chief of The Playlist, Rodrigo Perez and Co-Host Mike DeAngelo dust off their blasters and launch into a galaxy far, far away with a brand-new podcast dedicated to what the hosts are calling “the evolution of Star Wars.” On what we’re officially called ‘The Rogue Ones: A Star Wars Andor Podcast,’ each week our hosts will recap and review the latest “Andor” episode and welcome cast members and creatives from the show to discuss all things “Andor” and maybe a few other “Star Wars” properties.

HOLBY City actress Camilla Arfwedson has shared the first adorable snap of her newborn son. The BBC One star, who played feisty Dr Zosia March, only revealed her pregnancy last month - days before her due date.

HOLLY Willoughby has shown signs that she’s “stressed” and “unable to relax” after This Morning’s queue-gate, a body language expert has revealed. A petition to have Holly and Phil removed from This Morning topped 43,000 signatures, and came as people insisted the presenter duo skipped the queue to “file past the Queen lying in state,” while others waited for hours.

KIM Woodburn has launched a blistering attack on This Morning hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield, claiming she is "appalled by them." The How Clean Is Your House host, 80, has even called for the ITV duo to be sacked for "lying" in a damning interview on GB News. Kim's comments came after the This Morning anchors were accused of jumping the queue to view the late Queen lying in state on Friday. Members of the public were left furious as the TV hosts appeared to skip the long line, after some of them waited for up to 14 hours.

ANT and Dec have revealed they are now filming I'm A Celeb's spin-off series as they kick off a bumper year for the show. The pair, both 46, posted a video from South Africa while making the first ever pre-recorded episodes of the ITV hit. The stars shared a video from Kruger National Park, where the Aussie version of the show is shot.

LOVE Island's Molly-Mae Hague has opened up about the holiday horror she suffered with Tommy Fury. The reality TV star, 23, claimed she lost "five litres of blood" on a luxury break to Switzerland. Molly explained in her recent YouTube video: "When I was in the room by myself I ended up having a nosebleed like I've never, ever had before.

OLIVIA Attwood looked incredible as she soaked up the sun in Ibiza with her fiancé Bradley Dack.

Kim Kardashian, 41, has revealed that she had no idea her sister Khloe, 38, was having a baby with ex boyfriend Tristan Thompson, 31, when news of his cheating and fathering a child with another woman broke. During the season two premiere of Hulu’s The Kardashians, viewers could see how Khloe shared the news of her surrogacy news to her sister, right as Tristan Thompson was making headlines due to a paternity suit .

King Charles is expected to plan a family Christmas at Sandringham to maintain a royal tradition.The Royal Family will continue to gather on the 73 year old King's Norfolk estate in December as the new monarch's reign begins. Charles, who is known to be a "stickler for tradition", is determined that the monarchy conveys a sense of stability and continuity, insiders close to him have claimed. A source told The Telegraph: "His philosophy is that the monarchy is the constant state, inhabited by different individuals.

Kanye is sorry for “stressing” Kim Kardashian out — but says she discriminated against him in their marriage.  An atypically contrite “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” rapper apologized to his socialite ex-wife Thursday, repenting for disrupting her peace with his antics in the wake of their acrimonious split. “This is the mother of my children, and I apologize for any stress that I have caused,” said Kanye, 45, better known as Ye or Yeezy, on “Good Morning America.”“I need this person to be the least stressed and at best sound mind and as calm as possible to be able to raise those children,” he added of Kardashian, 41 — who he recently said has full parental control of their brood “80% of the time.”Kardashian filed for divorce in February 2021 after six years of holy matrimony. Their divorce was finalized in March 2022.

A royal source has dubbed King Charles a “stickler for tradition” and said he will most likely maintain traditions like the Royal piper. As a new monarch takes the throne, it’s only natural for them to revise royal traditions and implement new practices of their own. One such tradition is the Royal piper, or as it is sometimes referred to, Piper to the Sovereign.

Manori Ravindran International Editor Frederick Wiseman, a voracious reader, doesn’t watch television. In fact, he’d never really gotten through a whole series until recently, when he watched HBO’s “The Wire.” “I don’t know why, but it was interesting,” he tells Variety drily. Every couple of years, the 92-year-old master documentarian behind such seminal films as “Titicut Follies” and “Juvenile Court” has churned out a sprawling documentary fixated on a microcosm of society or some sort of social issue, but when the pandemic paused those efforts for two and a half years, it’s Wiseman’s literary proclivities that drew him to Sofia Tolstoy’s writing for his new fiction film “Un Couple,” which premiered Friday in Venice’s Competition section.

Guy Lodge Film Critic Six decades into a career of over 40 films, the last thing you might request of a new feature from 92-year-old documentarian Frederick Wiseman is that it surprise us. Yet after a run of expansive, richly process-oriented observations of mostly American institutions and communities, his new film, “A Couple,” upends expectations of his work in what feels an almost mirthfully perverse number of ways. For starters, it’s laser-focused on just one person, not a heaving collective of human labor and activity. It’s short — very much so, in fact, barely stretching past an hour. Also, lest we be burying the lede, it’s not a documentary. Wiseman’s first ever narrative feature sees him collaborating with French actor-writer Nathalie Boutefeu on a biopic of sorts: a portrait of Leo Tolstoy’s anguished wife Sophia, dramatizing her marital dissatisfaction and psychic pain with with a lyrical, literate ear.

There are two clear themes that have emerged by now at this year’s Venice film festival: one is the concept of the lost soul (Bardo, White Noise) and the other is the sometimes perilous consequence of letting big-name directors cut loose on their dream projects (also White Noise, Bardo). At 92, Frederick Wiseman has earned the right to do whatever he wants, but anyone getting over-excited about the prospect of this, his fiction debut, ought to know that Un Couple a) isn’t strictly fiction at all, and b) is very much of a piece with his famously unhurried longform documentaries.