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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Iconic Actress Recalls 'Crazy' Run-In With Taylor Swift: 'I Hate Myself'
—she's just like us! The 10 Things I Hate About You star detailed the "crazy" run-in she once had with in the Wednesday, May 21 episode of the podcast How to Fail, where she begrudgingly opened up about meeting the superstar at a 'game night party' they were both invited to. Stiles, 44, joked, 'God, I hate myself right now," as she dove into the tale. "The biggest name-dropping I could do—but it happened and it's awesome.' Swift, she said, just "has that presence" where you "could just feel" her entering the room. She wasn't planning on bothering the Eras Tour artist that night, but as she was getting ready to leave, someone intervened, letting her know that Swift was interested in saying hi to her.'...he was like, 'She really likes your work,'" the actress recalled, adding that she "blacked out" as they shook hands. "I don't remember, actually, what happened after that—but she said something very nice to me.' Stiles further 'dissociated for a second' while the two chatted, but eventually "worked up the courage" to praise the musician. "You're amazing; this is crazy," she told her, recalling the way she "looked like she genuinely appreciated it." While "there used to be a part of [her]" that insisted she "play it cool" when crossing paths with another actor or artist that she admired, more recently she's "discovered that everybody that's a performer wants to know people are listening to their music or watching their movies or care at all." Now, she's "totally, unselfconsciously ready to say" how fantastic she thinks somebody is. 'Even somebody like Taylor Swift, who is the biggest star on the planet, seems humble enough or just positive enough to be like, 'Yeah, I'm glad that bazillions of people like to listen to my music,'" she pointed out. "They don't take it for granted.'
News18
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- News18
Harry Potter Star Miriam Margolyes Raises Health Concerns: 'Doesn't Have Long To Live'
Published By : Bang Showbiz Miriam Margolyes, 83, revealed she doesn't have "long to live" after a major heart operation in 2023. She struggles with spinal stenosis and mobility issues. Miriam Margolyes has revealed she doesn't have 'long to live" after a major heart operation. The 83-year-old actress, who played Professor Sprout in the 'Harry Potter' film franchise, underwent a procedure in 2023 to replace an aortic valve, which ensured she avoided more invasive open heart surgery. She told The Times newspaper: 'When you know that you haven't got long to live – and I'm probably going to die within the next five or six years, if not before, I'm loath to leave behind performing. It's such a joy. I yearn to play roles that don't confine me to wheelchairs, but I'm just not strong enough." Shortly after the operation, she admitted she'd 'never heard of" the procedure before, but she was glad to have got it done. She told Jessie and Lennie Ware's 'Table Manners' podcast: 'I've got a cow's heart now – well, not the whole heart. I've had an aortic valve replaced by a cow's aortic valve. I don't know how common it is. I'd never heard of that operation. But it saves you from having open heart surgery, which would be infinitely more invasive." Last summer, Miriam admitted she is struggling to walk, and also confessed she regrets not making serious life changes after the 2023 procedure. She told Closer magazine about how she is suffering spinal stenosis – a condition that puts pressure on the spinal cord and nerves: 'I can't walk very well, and I'm registered disabled, so I use all kinds of assistance. 'I've got two sticks and a walker and they're such a bore, but I've just got a mobility scooter, which is a lot of fun." Miriam added in her interview she wished she had been able to conquer her weight and considers not doing so a defeat. She previously told the 'How to Fail' podcast: 'I am a blubber mass. I am fat. And to be fat and 82 is truly pathetic." Miriam has also shared her fears about ageing and said she is scared she will not be afford carers to look after her as her health deteriorates. She told the Radio Times magazine: 'I'm worried that I won't have enough money for carers when I finally get paralysed, or whatever it is that's going to happen to me." First Published:
Perth Now
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Miriam Margolyes 'doesn't have long to live' two years after major heart operation
Miriam Margolyes has revealed she doesn't have "long to live" after a major heart operation. The 83-year-old actress - who played Professor Sprout in the 'Harry Potter' film franchise - underwent a procedure in 2023 to replace an aortic valve, which ensured she avoided more invasive open heart surgery. She told The Times newspaper: "When you know that you haven't got long to live – and I'm probably going to die within the next five or six years, if not before, I'm loath to leave behind performing. "It's such a joy. I yearn to play roles that don't confine me to wheelchairs, but I'm just not strong enough." Shortly after the operation, she admitted she'd "never heard of" the procedure before, but she was glad to have got it done. She told Jessie and Lennie Ware's 'Table Manners' podcast: "I've got a cow's heart now - well, not the whole heart. I've had an aortic valve replaced by a cow's aortic valve. "I don't know how common it is. I'd never heard of that operation. But it saves you from having open heart surgery, which would be infinitely more invasive." Last summer, Miriam admitted she is struggling to walk, and also confessed she regrets not making serious life changes after the 2023 procedure. She told Closer magazine about how she is suffering spinal stenosis – a condition that puts pressure on the spinal cord and nerves: 'I can't walk very well, and I'm registered disabled, so I use all kinds of assistance. 'I've got two sticks and a walker and they're such a bore, but I've just got a mobility scooter, which is a lot of fun." Miriam added in her interview she wished she had been able to conquer her weight and considers not doing so a defeat. She previously told the 'How to Fail' podcast: 'I am a blubber mass. I am fat. And to be fat and 82 is truly pathetic.' Miriam has also shared her fears about ageing and said she is scared she will not be afford carers to look after her as her health deteriorates. She told the Radio Times magazine: 'I'm worried that I won't have enough money for carers when I finally get paralysed, or whatever it is that's going to happen to me.'
Irish Examiner
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Examiner
Podcast Corner: Jameela Jamil aims to be uninspiring on Wrong Turns
Jameela Jamil, an actress best known for The Good Place, a sitcom with a good idea that faded once it stretched past its first season, hosted the I Weigh podcast for four years. It ran from a month into lockdown in 2020 to the end of 2024, expanding from, as the title suggests, ideas of body shaming to talk of activism in local politics, disinformation, and dismantling gender violence. Perhaps she grew tired of the often heavy content, or maybe she just listened to a lot of How to Fail with Elizabeth Day and felt inspired, but either way, she's back with a new podcast called Wrong Turns - 'for anyone who feels like their life is one disaster after another'. Jamil explains at the outset of the first episode: 'This is a podcast that celebrates shame and indignity. I'm just fucking sick of all of the inspiration we're supposed to draw from all of the terrible moments in life, and I feel like we're overdosing on it online, and I just want somewhere where I can chill and just own my clusterfucks without it needing to have a silver fucking lining. And I wanted to bring my friends on to commiserate with me. We are anti-inspiration, pro-commiseration.' She's got a lot of celebrity pals to draw on - the first episode is with Mae Martin, a comedian, actor, writer, producer, and recording artist; and Bob the Drag Queen, a winner of Ru Paul's Drag Race. The second features We're Here to Help hosts Jake Johnson and Gareth Reynolds, and Eric Edelstein ( Parks and Recreation, Twin Peaks). 'Do you feel like disaster is drawn onto you?' Jamil asks them. Cue some very giddy banter as they throw themselves into the topic. It escalates so quickly that, not eight minutes in, Bob is telling a story about a vicious dressing down he gave to a pimply kid who was making fun of him when they were in seventh grade together. 'And then next year he's in a wheelchair. Because it wasn't a pimple. It was a brain tumour. He's dead. Fully dead to this day.' It's a stark story but it's played to Jamil and Martin laughing hysterically (and nervously?). A really weird moment. Whether you want to continue with the podcast after that is up to you. Finding Lucinda: Last autumn, The Road to Joni podcast traversed the US on the way to the Hollywood Bowl for a pair of rarely spotted Joni Mitchell shows, talking to various fans and followers along the way. Finding Lucinda is in the same vein as young singer-songwriter ISMAY goes on a road trip of self-discovery to trace the roots of their musical hero, Lucinda Williams, talking to collaborators and archivists along the way.
Buzz Feed
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Julia Stiles Shares Julia Roberts' Advice On Set
Warning: Discussion of eating disorders. You know Julia Stiles. The 10 Things I Hate About You actor recently revealed that she once struggled with body image and how a co-star (with the same name) helped boost her confidence — Julia Roberts. On a May 20 episode of How to Fail with Elizabeth Day, Julia explained how the other Julia was a mother figure and inspiration on the set of their 2003 film Mona Lisa Smile. The actors starred in the Mike Newell drama alongside Kirsten Dunst, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Ginnifer Goodwin. Julia Robert played Katherine Ann Watson, an art history teacher at Wellesley College in the 1950s who helped intellectually liberate her young students' minds. Think Dead Poets Society meets Steel Magnolias. "She was an amazing example for us, and she was so maternal with all the young women on that set," Julia said. "She was coming from a lot of experience of being not just a woman, but also a woman where your appearance is focused on so heavily." "Julia said to us, 'You're going to look back on these photos of you in your 20s and be like, I was beautiful — why didn't I see that?' And she's totally right." This echoes what Julia said about the Pretty Woman star earlier this year. On a Jan. 13 episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, she said, "She took care of all the girls on that set in a way she didn't really [have to]." "The movie hinged on her — she's a huge star; everything was riding on her performance in this movie," she added. "And yet she took the time to be really kind and generous to all the young women that were in it." In the How to Fail with Elizabeth Day podcast, Julia further explained how she struggled with "restrictive" eating in her 20s and early 30s as a Hollywood actor. "I'm not talking about an eating disorder — it was just restrictive, regimented, stressful. I always worried that it was going to be out of my control. Like, what if I gain weight?" she said. "I couldn't help but have a disordered relationship with it all." "There was stress around what your body looks like and trying to mold your body into a certain size," Julia continued. "As an actress, we go and promote on a red carpet, and we have to wear sample sizes from fashion designers. So it's always, 'Are we going to fit into the sample size?'" Now, as a mother of three children — Strummer, Arlo, and Henry — whom she shares with filmmaker Preston Cook, Julia acknowledged that negative perception was "a waste of fucking time" and everything that mattered "fell into place." "I've moved on," Julia said. "I've learned to be kinder in the way I think about my body and look at my body — to be kinder to myself but also trust your body ... I would be running on fumes, like, no sleep having just had a five-month-old baby. I didn't have time to think about, am I going to get back in shape to fit into those sample sizes?" Watch the podcast episode here: The National Eating Disorders Association helpline is 1-800-931-2237; for 24/7 crisis support, text 'NEDA' to 741741.
