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Evening Standard
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Evening Standard
Too Many Critics: charity restaurant event returns to raise vital funds for Action Against Hunger
This year, Too Many Critics will take place at Roe in Canary Wharf, with the Standard's restaurant critic David Ellis returning for a third time, joining a line-up including Tom Parker Bowles (Mail on Sunday), Hannah Twiggs (Independent) and Kate Krader (Bloomberg). Alongside them will be Leonie Cooper (Time Out), CODE and The Good Food Guide publisher Adam Hyman and Molly Codyre (Foodism).
Perth Now
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Allison Janney keeps her Oscar in different rooms around her house
Allison Janney moves her Oscar around the house. The 65-year-old star won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 2017 movie 'I, Tonya' and explained that she puts the gong in various places in her property to remind herself of the success. Speaking to the Mail on Sunday newspaper's You magazine, Allison said: "He moves around a lot. Sometimes he's in the kitchen. Sometimes he's on the top of the bookshelf I have in the living room. Sometimes he's in my office. It depends where he is needed. "I'm in the bedroom and sometimes I need to look at Oscar. I just look at it and go, 'That happened. That really happened.'" Allison recalled that she didn't get the chance to revel in her Oscar win as she was filming for her role as Bonnie Plunkett in the TV series 'Mom' the day after the ceremony. She said: "I went to bed at 2am, got up at 4.30am to do the TV talk show 'Live with Kelly and Ryan', then went to work. We did the read-through of the 'Mom' script and then they said congratulations (for the Oscar win) and sent us all home." Janney has never been married, although she was engaged to actor Richard Jenik between 2004 and 2006, and admits that she has no interest in trying to find love at the moment. 'The West Wing' star explained: "I don't date any more. Dating sounds awful. I've only had long-term relationships. The people I wound up with were friends who slowly developed into something. "I joined one of the dating apps once, Raya, but I didn't actually engage with it. That's on the backburner indefinitely." Allison also recounted a hilarious language misunderstanding as a crew member made a request to keep her cool during hot weather in Italy during the making of her latest movie 'Another Simple Favor'. She said: "I have this wig on and I'm sweating. The American assistant director looks at the Italian assistant director and says, 'Get Miss Janney a fan.' And the Italian assistant director comes back with two people - he thought that I needed to have fans of my work. "I'm laughing, wondering how he tried to find fans of Allison Janney. 'Come on, has anyone seen her in 'The West Wing'? He's probably listing my credits and no one knows who I am."
Perth Now
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
‘Really dark': Concerns for Prince Harry's mental health
The ongoing saga between Prince Harry and the royal family has taken another turn with royal commentators and insiders stating they are concerned for the Duke of Sussex's mental health. In a week where his father and brother celebrated VE day in the UK, Harry remains on the outer after stating he will not return to Britain with his family after a high court decision denied them government funded protection. The royal family including King Charles, Queen Camilla and the Prince and Princess of Wales spent the week paying tribute to those who lost their lives in WWII and the living veterans who continue to document their experiences. But after the bombshell interview Prince Harry delivered on the BBC stating that he was 'stitched up' by his family with regard to the security decisions and his fractured realtionship with his father, their movements have been overshadowed. The Duke of Sussex, 40, said he was left 'devastated' over the loss of the year long court battle and claimed he was the victim of a 'good old fashioned establishment stitch up'. The Prince launched an unprecedented attack on his family and disclosed he has fears for his father's mortality as he continues to fight cancer. 'He 'won't speak to me,' the Prince said of King Charles. 'Life is precious. I don't know how much longer my father has, he won't speak to me because of this security stuff. 'It would be nice to reconcile.' Daily Mail Royal Editor Rebecca English has described the actions as as a 'monumental hissy fit'. 'Some aspects of it are really very disturbing,' Ms English said. 'He effectively said that he believed there were people who actively wished him harm and he felt those people would see what happened 'as a win', as he described it. 'Where Harry goes from here, I don't know. 'He has obviously had a monumental hissy fit on television afterwards, to put it mildly.' Charlotte Griffiths, the Mail on Sunday's Editor at Large, joined Rebecca English, Richard Eden and Jo Elvin on Palace Confidential and all stated they had concerns for the Prince's mental welfare.. 'Harry just seemed beyond furious,' Elvon said. 'I am going to have to be careful with how I phrase this, but I thought he didn't look well in his expression, his demeanour,' Eden added. 'Often if you are angry about something, people say you should sleep on it but this seemed to be something, and I think the BBC would confirm that it was done in a hurry.' 'He said a series of very unpleasant, provocative and dark, disturbing things, frankly.' 'The suggestions that he doesn't know how long his father had to live which obviously increases speculation about the King's cancer. 'He was portraying the decision as an 'establishment stitch-up' and then you think well, why did you go to court and spend £1.5 million in the first place if you thought it was a stitch-up and it wouldn't make any difference, so that was odd.' 'He was hinting at evidence which he had seen which wasn't made public which he suggested showed that dark forces were out to get him and they wanted the same fate to befall him and his family as did his mother Diana. 'Really dark and certainly got me questioning his state of mind, frankly.'
West Australian
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- West Australian
Prince Harry: King Charles comments have royal experts concerned for Duke of Sussex's mental health
The ongoing saga between Prince Harry and the royal family has taken another turn with royal commentators and insiders stating they are concerned for the Duke of Sussex's mental health. In a week where his father and brother celebrated VE day in the UK, Harry remains on the outer after stating he will not return to Britain with his family after a high court decision denied them government funded protection. The royal family including King Charles, Queen Camilla and the Prince and Princess of Wales spent the week paying tribute to those who lost their lives in WWII and the living veterans who continue to document their experiences. But after the bombshell interview Prince Harry delivered on the BBC stating that he was 'stitched up' by his family with regard to the security decisions and his fractured realtionship with his father, their movements have been overshadowed. The Duke of Sussex, 40, said he was left 'devastated' over the loss of the year long court battle and claimed he was the victim of a 'good old fashioned establishment stitch up'. The Prince launched an unprecedented attack on his family and disclosed he has fears for his father's mortality as he continues to fight cancer. 'He 'won't speak to me,' the Prince said of King Charles. 'Life is precious. I don't know how much longer my father has, he won't speak to me because of this security stuff. 'It would be nice to reconcile.' Daily Mail Royal Editor Rebecca English has described the actions as as a 'monumental hissy fit'. 'Some aspects of it are really very disturbing,' Ms English said. 'He effectively said that he believed there were people who actively wished him harm and he felt those people would see what happened 'as a win', as he described it. 'Where Harry goes from here, I don't know. 'He has obviously had a monumental hissy fit on television afterwards, to put it mildly.' Charlotte Griffiths, the Mail on Sunday's Editor at Large, joined Rebecca English, Richard Eden and Jo Elvin on Palace Confidential and all stated they had concerns for the Prince's mental welfare.. 'Harry just seemed beyond furious,' Elvon said. 'I am going to have to be careful with how I phrase this, but I thought he didn't look well in his expression, his demeanour,' Eden added. 'Often if you are angry about something, people say you should sleep on it but this seemed to be something, and I think the BBC would confirm that it was done in a hurry.' 'He said a series of very unpleasant, provocative and dark, disturbing things, frankly.' 'The suggestions that he doesn't know how long his father had to live which obviously increases speculation about the King's cancer. 'He was portraying the decision as an 'establishment stitch-up' and then you think well, why did you go to court and spend £1.5 million in the first place if you thought it was a stitch-up and it wouldn't make any difference, so that was odd.' 'He was hinting at evidence which he had seen which wasn't made public which he suggested showed that dark forces were out to get him and they wanted the same fate to befall him and his family as did his mother Diana. 'Really dark and certainly got me questioning his state of mind, frankly.'
Telegraph
03-03-2025
- Lifestyle
- Telegraph
Subway is bringing the jacket potato back to the UK high street – for £5.79
'I love baked potatoes,' divulged Margaret Thatcher to Jilly Cooper in a Mail on Sunday interview published 40 years ago this month. 'But only with lots of butter.' We can only wonder what Thatcher, with her infamously parsimonious appetite, would make of my lunch this afternoon. I have just ordered a jacket potato from the Grantham branch of Subway – a short walk from both her birthplace and her statue – but unlike the traditional serving she describes, mine is a steaming pyramid of excess, topped with 'taco beef', jalapeños and a substantial smear of guacamole. For the uninitiated, Subway is an American chain of build-your-own sandwich restaurants. Celebrating its 60th birthday this year, the brand now has more than 37,000 branches in around 100 countries, making it the fourth largest fast food chain in the world. The vast majority of these restaurants offer the same fundamental product – a complex, modular menu from which customers can select their preferred bread, fillings and condiments for use in the creation of a six-inch or foot-long submarine sandwich. But this month, a tiny number of UK sites has started selling that British dinner time staple: the jacket potato. It's a savvy move that reflects several quietly developing trends in our eating habits. For one thing, jacket potatoes are 'in', with high-ish profile vendors like Spudman (who sells generously-topped potatoes from a trailer in Tamworth) attracting long queues of TikTok followers through clever promotion on the platform. Secondly, an increasing number of Brits consider themselves gluten-free, and plenty more are trying to eat less of it; potato is a welcome antidote to the bread-based lunches we joylessly consume at our desks every day. And thirdly, it's cheap – for £5.79, a generously topped jacket potato costs less than a pint in a London pub. As my souped-up spud approaches completion, I can't help comparing Subway's offer with that of Spud-u-Like, the now-defunct jacket potato takeaway franchise that rose to prominence in the early 1980s. Back then, Britain's recession-hit high streets were hungry for an inexpensive yet substantial lunch option, which Spud-u-Like and its many thousands of topping combinations delivered; now, in the era of ' cozzie livs ', Subway is tentatively entering that space, offering near-infinite permutations of fillings, including vegetarian and low-calorie choices, for not much money. Can it succeed where Spud-u-Like failed? The potato I receive is phenomenal value and entirely delicious. Having arrived on the Sandwich Artist's (yes, that's what Subway calls its servers) well-worn chopping board in a ready-cooked state, everything that subsequently happened to it was an improvement. It doesn't have a crunchy skin like it would if you'd sprinkled it with sea salt and baked it on the oven rack for at least an hour, but it has supremely fluffy flesh and the kind of chewy, creamy hide that makes you feel like you might be eating something healthy after all. Of course, undermining that sentiment is whatever you've chosen to top your spud with. This particular potato has some fragrant beef, which is unremarkable but tasty, plus butter, a little bit of melty processed cheese, and avocado, which emerged from a piping bag for an additional fee of £1. It looks spectacular, smells terrific, tastes better than I've made it sound and – crucially – seems to last forever, its heft in my hand barely dissipating as I excavate great chunks from it with a small wooden fork. Size is certainly what fuels the potato's newfound popularity on social media platforms, where gratuitous portions and outlandish toppings attract attention and engagement. Subway's offering is relatively restrained, with generous but respectable quantities of varied spud enhancements. It's relieving that Subway hasn't tried to make its jacket potatoes grotesque, like the 'dirty' burger trend of the mid-2010s. Soon, some try-hard twentysomethings will open an ironic potato shop in Hoxton, and then it will all be over. For now, though, Subway is showing us that healthy-ish, cheap-ish food is possible – and doesn't even have to be TikTok famous. I return to the counter to order my second potato of the day. Other customers wander in for their lunch, some with potato preferences I would never have considered; one lady asks for a Philly cheesesteak topping, for example. I opt for a classic beans-and-cheese combo with an impulsive spoonful of sliced gherkins, which must seem like a beguilingly high-margin product to Subway's beancounters. Will the £5.79 price keep 'Spudway' in business? And are its jacket potatoes up to the job? From where I'm sitting – in front of a cardboard carton filled with steaming starch – the outlook is good. While nobody since Spud-u-Like has managed to sell a meaningful number of jacket potatoes, Subway's immense economies of scale and 2,000-odd UK branches make it well-placed to try. Truthfully, I'll probably stick to my overpriced vegetarian sushi when I need to buy lunch out-and-about, but if the Spudway trial is a success, it will be a welcome addition to Britain's beleaguered high streets.
