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Cosmopolitan
13 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Cosmopolitan
Why isn't Maura Higgins at the Love Island: A Decade of Love anniversary special? Star's absence explained
Love Island fans, tonight is the night. At 9pm this evening, a group of iconic villa alumni will reunite as part of the 10th anniversary celebrations, and we literally cannot wait. (Sidenote, how has it been a decade already? Feeling old.) Over on ITV2, former contestants are set to look back at some of the show's biggest - and most dramatic - moments, while sharing their own hot takes on the scenes. Hey, Maya Jama did ask for big twists and more drama on the new series, which is also set to air this month, so it looks like she'll be getting what she asked for a little earlier. Theatrics aside, exactly which ex Islanders can we expect to see this evening? And who is set to skip the big event? Because rumour has it, Maura Higgins, one of the show's biggest breakout stars, seems to have lost her invite. Which leads us to our next question... why? First things first, we're not confirming that Maura is going to be a no-show. For all we know, she may surprise us and turn up at the hottest event of the year. After all, she does have a history of arriving late: the 34-year-old rocked up to last year's I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! a few days after everyone else, remember. The reason we're not sure if Maura is on the bill is that we've not seen her on the list of names expected to appear. Rather, the alumni we know are returning include Cara De La Hoyde-Massey and Nathan Massey, series seven champs Millie Court and Liam Reardon, series nine winners Kai Fagan and Sanam Harrinanan, and series eight finalists Indiyah Polack and Dami Hope. Also on the lineup are Gabby Allen, Montana Brown, Dani Dyer, Georgia Steel, Hannah Elizabeth, Whitney Adebayo, Anton Danyluk, and Catherine Agbaje. From her Instagram posts, we also know that Maura is currently soaking up the sun in Mykonos - a long way from the Majorcan villa. She's also not posted anything to the grid about the special, which could also be a hint. But if you want our advice, we suggest tuning in tonight to find out for yourself. We know we will. Love Island: A Decade of Love will air on ITV2 at 9pm tonight.
The Irish Sun
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Popular RTE show disappears off air as replacement revealed in summer shake-up
A FAN favourite RTE show has disappeared off air and its replacement has now been confirmed. , hosted by , and Advertisement 2 RTE is having a schedule shake-up 2 Today has wrapped up for its annual summer break Credit: The popular chat show airs every Monday to Friday at 3.30pm to 5.40pm. Daithi co-hosts with Sinead every Monday and Tuesday before he's joined by Maura on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. However, the series has wrapped up for its annual The hit chat show was jam-packed this season with appearances from many Advertisement READ MORE ON RTE Next Friday, in Today's usual slot, Frankie Drake Mysteries is a drama series, set in stylish 1920s Toronto, that follows the female-only agency Drake Private Detectives, led by the eponymous Frankie Drake and her partner Trudy Clarke. Incorporating a brand of justice that doesn't always follow the law, Frankie and Trudy investigate mysteries and crimes that either the police refuse to take on, or that their clients cannot take to the police at all. Also in Today's slot, RTE will be showing an episode of Room to Improve at 4.40pm Advertisement most read in the irish sun Exclusive The popular show sees architect Today will be back on air in September for the new autumn RTE schedule. A look at tonight's episode of Fair City Maura and Daithi were At the beginning of the show, Daithi remarked: "Our final show of season 13, can you believe it?" Advertisement The Daithi said: "I think this year and last year have gone so fast Maura. it might be also kind of..." OFF AIR Maura cut across him and said laughing: "It might be us ageing!" Daithi replied: "Well... getting up the ranks - I was going to say, but yeah. We've had so much fun." Advertisement Maura added: "We have actually, it's been brilliant." At the end of the programme, the pair took a few moments to thank their listeners. Daithi said: "Sin é." Maura said: "That is it. Oh my God, yes. Season 13, of the show. No, we can't believe it. It's just unreal. Advertisement "Listen, thanks to our guests. Thanks to all of you as well for watching. And thanks to our great Today show team behind the scenes who put us on air every single day."
The Irish Sun
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
‘It's unreal' – says RTE star Maura Derrane in disbelief as she finishes up on air with Daithi in ‘final show' statement
RTE stars Maura Derrane and Daithi O Se were left in disbelief as they finished up on air this evening. , hosted by , and 3 Maura and Daithi co-hosted their last show of season 13 of Today Credit: RTE 3 Maura and Daithi couldn't believe how quick the year went Credit: RTE 3 Maura and Daithi thanked their loyal viewers Credit: RTE The popular chat show airs every Monday to Friday at 3.30pm to 5.40pm. Daithi co-hosts with Sinead every Monday and Tuesday before he's joined by Maura on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. However, the series wrapped up for its annual Maura got all dolled up for the occasion wearing a cream floral print shift dress with collar and button details and a belt cinched in at her waist. read more on maura derrane While Daithi looked dapper wearing a denim shirt, navy blazer and a pair of black trousers. At the beginning of the show, Daithi remarked: "Our final show of season 13, can you believe it?" The Galway native replied: "I can't believe it actually it has just flown in. I know we say this every year but this year has especially gone so fast." Daithi said: "I think this year and last year have gone so fast Maura. it might be also kind of..." read more on the irish sun Maura cut across him and said laughing: "It might be us ageing!" Daithi replied: "Well... getting up the ranks - I was going to say, but yeah. We've had so much fun." Maura Derrane shows off beauty routine ahead of major awards show Maura added: "We have actually, it's been brilliant." At the end of the programme this evening, the pair took a few moments to thank their listeners. Daithi said: "Sin é." Maura said: "That is it. Oh my God, yes. Season 13, of the show. No, we can't believe it. It's just unreal. "Listen, thanks to our guests. Thanks to all of you as well for watching. And thanks to our great Today show team behind the scenes who put us on air every single day." REPLACEMENT Daithi added: "That's it. We are back after the summer. So we hope you will have a summer full of sunshine and great fun as well." Maura blew kisses to her viewers and added: Absolutely. Take care. Have a great summer." Next Friday, in Today's usual slot, RTE will be showing a repeat episode of Frankie Drake Mysteries at 3.20pm and an episode of Room to Improve at 4.40pm. The hit chat show was jam-packed this season with appearances from many Today will be back on air in September for the new autumn RTE schedule
Cosmopolitan
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Cosmopolitan
10 jaw-dropping Love Island moments as the show turns 10, from Jon & Hannah's engagement to outrageous rows
Our fave show is back in just over a week, and our whole personality is about to be taken over by Love Island once again. This year will mark 10 years since the show first aired and what a decade it has been. We've since had two winter series and the All-Stars series is now a regular spin-off. On Sunday, 1st June, some of the legendary cast will return for a special episode, Love Island: A Decade of Love, commemorating 10 years of the dating show. With this in mind, we just couldn't help ourself and put together a list of some of the biggest moments from over the years. It was hard to pick just 10, but from Jon Clark proposing to Hannah Elizabeth in season one, to countless moments that have now become our fave memes, here's all the Love Island moments we just cannot get over - plus some honourable mentions. Season: 1 Season one started with a bang, with John Clark getting down on one during the Love Island finale. While others have given some pretty emotional love declarations since then, absolutely no one has been able to top John's proposal. Season: 2 All anyone has to do is mention Zara Holland from Love Island and automatically the image of her and Alex Bowen in the Hideaway pops up in your mind. The shocking scene led to Zara being stripped of her Miss Great Britain title and ignited a national debate about double standards and media scrutiny. Season: 2 Season two was full of chaos. Back when the Islanders weren't too bothered with coming up with secret words or football language to hide the fact that they'd done the deed, Terry Walsh and Emma Jane-Woodham took it one step further as they had sex on top of the covers in plain sight. We're still screaming just thinking about it. Season: 5 We fell in love with Maura Higgins from the moment she entered the Love Island villa as a bombshell and went straight for Tommy Fury despite him kind of being very happily coupled up with Molly-Mae Hague at the time. She really dgaf and we loved that about her, but this moment here pretty much sealed the deal for us. One night, Maura and Tom Walker were due to go to the Hideaway, but Maura then overheard Tom boasting to the other guys. "I just want to see if she's all mouth," he laughed as the boys cheered him on. Unbeknownst to him, Maura heard the entire exchange and confronted him straight away, saying: "Are you joking? That's disgraceful, Tom. That's absolutely f***ing disgusting." She really put him in his place and they didn't end up going to the Hideaway, as she told him to "go f*** himself." Ouch! Season: 3 Season three was probably my favourite season of Love Island. It's the first year Casa Amor was introduced (and that year it was wild with postcards and everything), and it's also the year celebrity Love Island fan, Stormzy, made a cameo. First, his Tweet: "Chris, you're too good for her mate" was read out during a challenge, sparking major tension between Chris Hughes and his partner Olivia Attwood. Stormzy then had a video call with Chris, Kem Cetinay and Marcel Somerville and told Olivia "No hard feelings, yeah?" Although, she was still quite upset about it. Olivia and Chris split six months after the show, but Chris and Stormzy's relationship developed, with the duo going on to produce a song, 'Little Bit Leave It, along with Kem (oh, the good ole days.) Season: 3 Tensions were high in the villa as Georgia Harrison and Amber Davies clashed over Kem Cetinay and the feud between Theo Campbell and Jonny Mitchell continued. Chris came up with what he thought was a perfect solution to diffuse the situation, asking the others: "Do you want me to rap anyone, lift the mood a bit?" Unfortunately for Chris (and comedy fans everywhere), the Islanders weren't in the mood, and his offer was instantly shut down. But, it has become one of the most used memes and catchphrases from the show, so a win is a win! Season: 3 Ever since Georgia Harrison (who joined the villa as a bombshell) stole Kem from Amber, we've not stopped seeing that hilarious meme of Amber's face the moment she heard Georgia say Kem's name. It's now a regularly used meme in group chats or on X (formerly Twitter) for when anything shocking happens in general or during dramatic recouplings on the show. Season: 5 This moment brought us not one, but two of the most iconic lines to come out of Love Island. After Casa Amor, Amy Hart returned to the villa to find out that Curtis had tried (and failed) to recouple with bombshell Jourdan Riane. Following this, Amy pulled Curtis and laid into him, saying: "I was coming back her to tell you that I loved you." She later questioned whether Curtis really loved her and said that in the mornings he didn't stay in the bed to cuddle her, to which he quickly responded: "I also want to be the person that gets up and makes everyone a coffee. so everyone's ready for the morning." We're still cringing over this moment. We've loved pretty much every baby challenge that has taken place on Love Island, and hope it will return this year. While not as racy as most of the other challenges, it's really made us LOL - from all those baby names we can't get out of our head (hello, Cash Hughes and Sienna Funke Hope, with the Indiyah Polack baby hairs!), to some of the most chaotic scenes like when Dr. Alex George dropped his baby during a pram race with Josh Denzel in season four. Season: 7 The Love Island talent show is another one that gets us every, single time, and Millie Court playing the keyboard in 2021 really tickled us. For her segment, Millie performed a very, unique piece she'd composed herself. Speaking in the The Beach Hut, Jake Cornish gushed: "I find songs like that, especially piano/keyboard, it's beautiful to hear it. When Mills was playing it and it was super silent and everyone was engaged on Mills, it was beautiful. I almost had a little tear in my eye." Same here, Jake, same here (although, probably not for the same reasons as you!) The hilarious moment has become a viral meme, and each year when it's time for the talent show, there's often a collage of all the "musicians" floating about on social media. Season: 2 We're just going to name this one Kady, because she had a lot of wild moments on Love Island. No wonder they invited her back as a bombshell for season 10. Things went left between her and new girl Malia Arkian, who joined (ever so briefly) as a bombshell. Kady decided to sit next to Malia who had just taken Scott out on a date and spilt her drink . Some of it went on Malia's leg and she was fuming. "Do you think I'd waste my wine of your leg?" Kady asked as Malia stormed off. Malia then screamed at Kady, "Shut up, you d**k" and tried to fight her. Malia was subsequently removed from the villa. Another dramatic moment came after Tina Stinnes' arrival. Tina took Scott on a date and it didn't go down well with Kady, who could be heard screaming and shouting insults from a private room she was being kept in with Olivia Bowen. "You're a c**t and your dress is s***!" she said. We struggled, so below is a list of some moments that almost made our Top 10: Love Island starts on Monday 9th June on ITV2 at 9pm.
The Guardian
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Aftertaste by Daria Lavelle review – what exactly is ‘clairgustance'?
Reading Aftertaste, I found myself wondering how readers visualised novels before the age of cinema. Now we all have a set of preformed mental images of things we might never have seen – or won't ever see – in real life, from plane crashes to zombie apocalypses. Sometimes, a novel comes along with a climactic scene that's so exact a fit for a particular movie's aesthetic (Ghostbusters, in this case: we're talking angry spooks! SFX! Manhattan!) that it's practically an extension of the franchise. Daria Lavelle's debut is an amalgamation of hypermodern satire, slushy romance and savvy cultural allusion that is as vigorously brought together as its lead character's recipes. Konstantin 'Kostya' Duhovny has been plagued since childhood with a strange affliction. Tastes he has never experienced invade his mouth. He seems to be having other people's food memories. But whose? A lowly restaurant dishwasher, he has a big advantage over the other kitchen serfs: pinning down these evanescent flavours has given him a huge repertoire of tastes and techniques, fast-tracking his culinary skills, and soon he is rising in New York's haute restaurant scene. When he recreates a cocktail he has fleetingly tasted, a ghost appears, sending Kostya in panic to a psychic, who luckily turns out to be a beautiful young woman. Goth girl Maura offers a diagnosis: what he suffers from is clairgustance, which allows him to taste the favourite foods of the departed, connecting him with the dead. As movie lore dictates, Maura and Kostya can't link romantically just yet. Dispatching him with a baleful warning never to repeat the experiment, she disappears from the narrative – for now. Sign up to Inside Saturday The only way to get a look behind the scenes of the Saturday magazine. Sign up to get the inside story from our top writers as well as all the must-read articles and columns, delivered to your inbox every weekend. after newsletter promotion Lavelle excels in conjuring the scenes behind the swinging doors, where head chefs hassle, sous chefs hustle and sweating waitstaff barrel in and out. An episode with Kostya meandering glumly through a pretentious sea-themed pop-up nightclub is also terrific in its caustic observation of hipster types. Chapter headings uphold the culinary theme: Mise en Places, Entrée, Backburners, as well as the more intriguing Hard to Swallow and Discomfort Food. Working at Saveur Fare, an El Bulli-style gastrodome, Kostya experiments with menus in spare moments, then opens his own secret supper club, promising punters the chance of a final meeting with a departed loved one. Sometimes full materialisation ensues, sometimes it doesn't, but a mystery investor gets wind and offers an upgrade: Kostya's own restaurant. Interpolated passages in italics represent the banter of an overeager tour guide to 'The Konstantin Duhovny Culinary Experience' ('All right! How we doing? Getting a taste for our guy's secret sauce?'). The moment when we twig just who is leading the tour is expertly timed. Maura and Kostya soon reconnect, but it's strange that someone who can write so scathingly about the sillier aspects of modern life can also come up with dialogue like this: 'No! Konstantin, that isn't – that might be how it started, but it isn't how it stayed! I fell for you. It would have been so much easier if I hadn't.' Hungry spirits are now jostling for attention and the veil between worlds is fraying. There has already been a sneaky reference to Ghostbusters, and sentences such as 'A waiter slipped behind a thick velvet curtain, only to be driven out by a cackling ghost' suggest that Bill Murray and crew will charge through the door at any moment. But the novel is seasoned with plenty of imagination, pathos and novelty: it even updates the famous literary principle of Chekhov's gun in foodie terms, but I won't spoil that particular innovation. Aftertaste pulls together familiar elements of romance and the supernatural, adding a dash of Anthony Bourdain-style bullishness and a pinch of Davelle's own authorial smarts. I'll bet there's a run on fleur de sel right after publication day. Aftertaste by Daria Lavelle is published by Bloomsbury (£16.99). To support the Guardian, order your copy at Delivery charges may apply.
