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Guardian features writer/interviewer. Ambassador. @encephalitis & proud Manc/Salfordian 🐝 Also @shattenstone.bsky.social
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‘I felt I could smash my past up through sex’: the ruthlessness and redemption of Rupert Everett

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“I am chubby,” insists Everett, in his breathy, blue-blooded drawl. Well, none of us are as thin as we once were, I intercede, and you were probably too skinny back then. Everett gives me a magnificent how-very-dare-you look. “No, I wasn’t. I was wonderful-looking at one point. I had muscles. Everything.” He’s talking about his golden era in the movies, when he was big box office. “It was quite short-lived. I call it my Hollywood year.” He chuckles. Everett’s got a wonderful chuckle. A barely audible hum.
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Versatile, skilful, graceful, lovable and spiky: Bernardo Silva is in a sphere of his own

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Bernardo Silva controls the play for Manchester City during their Champions League final victory against Inter in Istanbul three seasons ago. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian Bernardo Silva is more than a footballer. He’s a time-travelling, shapeshifting superhero. He even looks like a superhero – a nine-volt battery of a man doing battle with feral giants on the pitch. In 55 years of watching football I’ve never seen anybody or anything like him.
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I’ve been writing to Jeremy Bamber for years, but suddenly the prison has stopped me. Why?

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‘Jeremy Bamber has been writing to journalists ever since he was jailed in 1985.’ Photograph: Andrew Hunter/PA A few weeks ago I wrote a lengthy email to Jeremy Bamber, who has been in prison for nearly 41 years after being convicted of murdering five family members. Bamber has always protested his innocence, and the late Guardian prison correspondent Eric Allison and I have frequently written about Bamber and the White House Farm murders in the Guardian over the years.
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