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Yahoo
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Olivia Rodrigo Embraces the Power of the Red Lip for Glastonbury Music Festival
Olivia Rodrigo borrowed a page from Taylor Swift's beauty playbook for her Sunday night performance during the Glastonbury Music Festival at Worthy Farm, Pilton. The 22-year-old Grammy winner sang a medley of classics from her breakout studio album 'Guts' and her sophomore album 'Sour' on the main stage for day five of the concert series. In true Swift fashion, Rodrigo drew a bold red lip for her on-stage aesthetic, keeping the rest of her makeup clean except for her signature winged eyeliner. The rich red shade on Rodrigo's lips was the cherry on top of her punky aura, characterized by several outfit changes and black platform boots, perfect for stomping. The 'Vampire' vocalist wore a white minidress with an eyelet bodice and lace detailing along the bottom trim and neckline. The ultra-feminine piece was juxtaposed with Rodrigo's favorite fishnet tights and, of course, the knee-high boots. She also donned a more casual ensemble, comprised of Union flag sequin micro shorts and a red and white jersey T-shirt. Meanwhile, her medium brown hair was styled in her trademark loose waves, freshly trimmed just past her chest. More from WWD Scarlett Johansson Pays Tribute to China's Red Heritage in Prada at 'Jurassic World Rebirth' Shanghai Premiere Charli XCX Goes for Pop Punk in Custom McQueen, Olivia Rodrigo Embraces Lingerie Inspiration and More From 2025 Glastonbury Music Festival Lauren Sánchez's Wedding Festivities Begin in Venice With the Bride Wearing Schiaparelli Rodrigo typically collaborates with makeup artist Melissa Hernandez, the talent behind Mikey Madison's and Barbie Ferreira's beauty looks. However, Fernandez was noticeably preoccupied with Sydney Sweeney earlier in the weekend, getting her ready for the lavish wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez. When Rodrigo was announced as Lancôme's global ambassador in 2024, the campaign images captured her in a neat red lip. At the time, Rodrigo told WWD: 'Embracing your individuality is so important in beauty, since there are many unrealistic expectations placed on young women today. Lancôme is an iconic and timeless brand that promotes beauty from within, and I am honored to be a part of their family.' 'Olivia is an incredible talent, an exceptional phenomenon,' said Françoise Lehmann, Lancôme international brand president. 'She's a person exuding strength and authenticity. [Olivia] is a beacon for her generation. She's inventing her own path, doesn't fit into any molds and is inventing something new.' Glastonbury 2025: Charli XCX, Olivia Rodrigo, Shaboozey and More Celebrity Style, Photos View Gallery Launch Gallery: Glastonbury 2025: Charli XCX, Olivia Rodrigo, Shaboozey and More Celebrity Style, Photos Best of WWD Lauren Sánchez's Fashion Evolution Through the Years: From Her Days as TV News Anchor to Today Labubu vs. 'Lafufu': How to Spot the Differences Between Real and Fake Bob Haircut Trend: Leslie Bibb, Halle Berry & More Looks [Photos] Solve the daily Crossword
Forbes
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Neil Young's Album Hits A New Peak Thanks To One Big Performance
Neil Young's Greatest Hits returns to the Official Album Downloads chart at a new peak at No. 27, ... More following his Glastonbury set with the Chrome Hearts. GLASTONBURY, ENGLAND - JUNE 28: Neil Young during day four of Glastonbury festival 2025 at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 28, 2025 in Glastonbury, England. Established by Michael Eavis in 1970, Glastonbury has grown into the UK's largest music festival, drawing over 200,000 fans to enjoy performances across more than 100 stages. In 2026, the festival will take a fallow year, a planned pause to allow the Worthy Farm site time to rest and recover. (Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage) Neil Young, along with his new band the Chrome Hearts, helped headline the Glastonbury Festival this year, which took place in the final days of June in Glastonbury, England. Young stands out from many of the other headliners, as he's neither nearly as young nor as trendy – and yet he still managed to draw a massive crowd. The legendary rocker and his backing group performed on the Pyramid Stage on Saturday night on the same day as powerhouses like Lewis Capaldi, The 1975, Noah Kahan, and Olivia Rodrigo. Thanks to his coveted slot, Young bounds up the charts in the United Kingdom, as such a coveted slot can lead to a huge uptick in consumption. Neil Young's Greatest Hits Makes a Chart Comeback Young's compilation Greatest Hits is back and bigger than ever as fans across the U.K. are reminded of how much they love his many timeless tunes. The singles-packed project reappears on the Official Album Downloads chart this week at No. 27. The fact that it lands on that specific ranking speaks to the fact that Glastonbury attendees — and those following along online — rushed to platforms like iTunes to revisit his catalog around the time of his performance. A New Peak for a Familiar Favorite As Greatest Hits finds its way back to the Official Album Downloads chart, it reaches a never-before-seen high point. This turn marks its first inside the top 40 on the tally, as it previously peaked at No. 42. The compilation hasn't appeared on the list since February 2022, and it originally debuted just below the top 40 region in the summer of 2009. 'Harvest Moon' Returns to the Singles Ranking As Young returns to the album downloads chart, he also scores a win once more on the Official Singles Downloads list. On that ranking, 'Harvest Moon' appears for only the second time ever, as it breaks back in at No. 96. Focus Shifts From New Album to Nostalgic Favorites Shortly before heading to Glastonbury, Young released Talking to the Trees, his first full-length collection with the Chrome Hearts. Now, three weeks into its run on the U.K. rankings, the set slips more than 10 spaces on both the Official Albums Sales and Official Physical Albums charts, as it seems fans are currently more focused on revisiting Greatest Hits than diving into brand new material.
Yahoo
28-06-2025
- Yahoo
I used to clean toilets at Glastonbury - this is the best time to use it
Glastonbury Festival is well underway, with 210,000 festivalgoers making their way to the iconic venue in Worthy Farm, in Pilton, Somerset. With so many people in attendance, two things usually remain firmly planted in the back of people's minds - hygiene and toilets. Every year the toilets are rammed with people, and the hygiene rapidly spirals out of control, but beauty specialist Cult Beauty has spoken with a former Glastonbury toilet cleaner to get some essential insider tips. Read more: State pension £11,973 warning to anyone turning 65 soon Timing toilet trips can be a bit of a juggling act in of itself, with massive queues and a relentless line-up of acts people won't want to miss. The former volunteer said: "The best and quietest time to use the toilets is 12am because most of the big acts have finished, although the festival is still busy," the volunteer says. "They will also have had 18 hours of cleaning throughout the day, so they'll be in really good condition.' 'My next tip would be: don't go to the campsite toilets just after an act has finished their set as they will be absolutely packed and will see a lot of use at this time. "Finally, don't go first thing in the morning before 6am as no one will have been on shift to upkeep them since 12am, and the first time they'll be getting cleaned is 6am. Try to wait around till about 7am once they've been cleaned but before the big queues start!' They continued: 'The best toilets to visit at Glastonbury are those near the main stage, also known as the Pyramid Stage' despite them being busier, they tend to put more people on to keep these cleaner. "Also, definitely opt for using the compostable toilets over the long drops, as they're typically much easier to keep clean.' 'I would say that some toilets are cleaned less regularly. The worst ones I would say are the ones that are further out around the outskirts of the site, as they can sometimes be difficult to find and aren't cleaned as often, however, they also aren't used as frequently.' 'The best toilets and showers however, will always be the ones on the paid-for accommodation campsites like Worthy View as they're cleaned by an external cleaning company regularly, if you're willing to pay for it.' Regarding hygiene, they added: 'It's important to rely on having your own hand sanitiser. "There are hundreds of thousands of people using the hand sanitiser supplied by Glastonbury throughout the day and sometimes it just can't be replenished quick enough, so make sure you have your own on you at all times!'
Daily Mail
28-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE The dark side of Glastonbury: Drug dealers prowling village lanes, pub staff flogging tickets for sexual favours and drunk yobs trying to break in
Fed up villagers living in the shadow of Glastonbury claim they are sick to death of ticketless fans arriving and trying to gatecrash the festival saying they bring drugs dealers in to town, commit lewd sexual acts and spoil the event Locals in Shepton Mallet and Pilton in Somerset claim the huge demand for tickets encourages organised gangs to spring up to take advantage of the chaos, and even blame some of their neighbours for joining in the dodgy dealing. The world-famous music event is currently taking place at Worthy Farm and every edition is attended by hundreds of thousands of people with hundreds more attempting to jump the fence. In order to maintain order, Glastonbury employs an army of security guards who patrol its huge perimeter and turn away anyone trying to enter illegally. But despite this obvious deterrent, ticketless ravers still arrive in their droves every year and haunt the giant fences for days, often sleeping rough wherever they can. MailOnline spent a night outside the festival speaking to gate jumpers, security staff and local villagers. We have chosen not to name any of the premises known to be used as bases by ticketless revelers or individuals spoken to in the article in order to deter imitators. After arriving in Pilton, we attempt to navigate the endless collection of closed and boarded off roads in order to get a sense of how imposing the defences are. Images taken by our drone show a staggering amount of infrastructure in place including 13ft fences and hedge barriers as well as hundreds of checkpoints. Whilst idling close to the festival, we were approached by a clearly drunk man wearing multiple wristbands on his arm who asked if we had tickets. After explaining we didn't, he offered to show us how to get inside, explaining that he was breaking in even though he had a ticket 'as it was more fun.' The man, who was swigging from a glass of vodka, then escorted us to a secluded stretch of the fence on the outskirts of Pilton. After downing his drink and throwing the glass into the woods, the man unsuccessfully attempted to scale the 15ft wall. Conceding defeat, he then attempted to commandeer a temporary security fence to use as a ladder. It was at this point, after we noticed he had drawn the attention of the security, we made a quick exit, leaving the man to his fate. It is unclear if he ever made it inside. The fact the man was wearing multiple wristbands is perhaps the clearest indicator that he - like thousands of others there that day - didn't have a ticket, the accepted wisdom being that security will not have time to check everyone's wristband and will just scan the arms of revelers. This is a tactic that has ostensibly also been used by notorious TikTok ukulele player Liam C, who went viral after sneaking into last year's festival and horrifying Dua Lipa with a private performance. Posting a video from inside the festival this year, the musician bragged 'My wristbands are all nothing ones I've tied on, this is genuine, we've blagged it in.' In the five hours MailOnline spent traipsing around the edges of Glastonbury, we saw multiple groups of mostly young men with small carry bags loitering around stretches of the fence. We didn't see a successful break in attempt in this time. Speaking under the condition of anonymity a member of the security team told us he wasn't optimistic about their chances. They said: 'Honestly it's mad they think we can't see them. 'Why would you be wandering around here if you didn't have a ticket? Some of them might get over the fence, but they never get far. There are over a thousand staff employed on the perimeter, you are always seen by one of us.' And although it may seem like a piece of harmless fun, the consequences of gate crashing can have ugly consequences. Last year's festival was thrown into chaos as hundreds of people snuck in with fake wristbands for just £50 by vaulting the fences - causing stages to be shut down from overcrowding and people to panic from the crush. An exclusive video obtained by MailOnline shows people in the early hours of the morning jumping over the high walls and running into the festival which already hosts more than 200,000 ticket holders. One successful infiltrator told MailOnline: 'It was ridiculously easy to get in. I joined a Reddit group chat of about 300 people and everyone was sharing tips and contact details of people who could break you in.' Official tickets cost over £300 but hundreds joined forums on social media sites to find out how to be snuck in by seasoned pros. While some people vaulted the festival's high walls, others pay for counterfeit wristbands to go through the main gates with. They are met at the Castle Cary train station and given all the legitimate wristbands slipped off the hands of people already in the festival and taken back out by organisers. One person told MailOnline: 'I just got the train down from London and met this girl at the station, paid her £50 in cash and she handed me the wristband.' Given then, that the chances of getting in via the fence are slim to none, what happens when gate crashers need a place to unwind after a day out in fields? Well according to locals, they descend on their neighbourhoods and village pubs - and that's where the trouble really starts. All pubs in the bordering village of Pilton were closed when MailOnline visited on Wednesday this week, but just up the road in the small town of Shepton Mallet they are a hub of activity. The landlord of one small local pub said that the problems in the tiny town, which has a population of just under 11,000 people, start well before the festival even begins as 'drug dealers are drawn here.' 'I'd say a few weeks before it starts you start to see them [drug dealers]', he explained, 'they pull up in their flash cars and just deal on the streets. Nobody else has cars like them. 'It's essentially free reign, the police are too busy with the festival - they're never caught.' Things further deteriorate from Tuesday to Saturday of the festival week when break in attempts peak. He continued: 'Oh it can be bedlam. There are young people off their heads on goes what everywhere you look, scrabbling for a ticket. Some of the locals play up to it which they really shouldn't. 'One year somebody accepted a sexual favour in one of the pubs for a day pass, it is pretty extreme.' Due to the incredibly overbearing nature of the festival, which shuts down the majority of roads around it for weeks, many residents are given a set number of passes allowing them in for free. The offer is so appealing it can even prove to be a major bonus for selling houses in the area. At the time of publication, rightmove's property of the week is a £575,000 three bedroom cottage with the listing stressing that 'home owners have access to valued village tickets.' However, some locals told MailOnline this scheme was open to manipulation by less scrupulous residents looking to make a quick buck. One woman told us: 'You can sell these passes for hundreds and there are ways to get more than your allocated share. 'One person I know has managed to get over ten of them and he has been flogging them for loads everywhere you look. 'It's really not good, it ruins it for everyone else and it encourages these people to turn up emptyhanded and behave like louts for five days. We live here!' In a neighbouring pub, the effects of this anti-social behaviour are plain to see. Due to its carpark, the venue has become popular with ticket touts who infrequently arrive and promise to guarantee entry to the festival for a fee usually in the region of £500-£600. The attempts are seized upon by desperate revelers willing to take a punt on local knowledge, however the attempts are rarely sophisticated or successful. In the short time MailOnline was in the pub, we watched multiple small vehicles arrive and collect payment from groups in exchange for getting them through the checkpoints. All but one of the trips was unsuccessful, and some were catastrophically so. One punter showed us a video of an earlier attempt he had made to break into the festival which resulted in him being locked up in the festival jail. In the clip, a group of people can be seen huddled in the back of the lorry as it moves through one of the many gated entry points to the sprawling Somerset festival. Knowing the game is up, two gate crashers are seen frantically slashing at the blue tarpaulin cab in an effort to break out on foot. The video then cuts to the revellers locked up in a secure facility with one proclaiming 'We're in Glastonbury jail!' Revellers who try and outsmart the security - or misbehave inside - in the coming week could be taken to 'Glastonbury Jail', officially a holding space where people who break the rules are evicted from the site. While detained, those who've fallen foul of Glastonbury's laws - including drug dealers or people displaying disorderly behaviour - are allowed to make a statement before they're frogmarched off site, occasionally into the hands of the police. The new installation is the latest innovation the UK's biggest festival has implemented since security was seriously beefed up in 2000. Speaking under the condition of anonymity to MailOnline, the man who filmed the video revealed he and others had paid £500 for the attempt after being picked up from a local pub and felt like 'illegal migrants'. He said: 'I was desperate to try it. You know f*** the system. This random guy arrived in this huge blue lorry and said we're gonna get everyone in. We all paid him £500. 'We got driven to Glasto jail which is my favourite place. I've been to Glastonbury three times and been to the jail three times. 'I'm not giving up this year, I will get in.' However there are many in Shepton Mallet who wish they all would and give them some peace. The landlord of one pub told us that although business spikes during the festival, some of the behaviour on display as the drinks flow is appalling. They said: 'The problem is that they turn up here with nothing. Sometimes they don't even have tents, they are just planning on sleeping rough. 'Of course whilst we're open it's mainly fine, bar the odd incident - we think one person has just defecated on the floor of the toilet for example, but when we shut at 11pm - where do they go? 'The answer is they have no choice but to sleep outside and all the noise and disruption that causes not just our business but others is incredibly damaging.'
Daily Mail
27-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
TV host Holly Willoughby is latest celebrity to take helicopter to 'green' Glastonbury as locals complain it's 'antisocial' and 'against the spirit' of the festival
She has been dubbed the Queen of Glastonbury Festival, having partied there every summer for a decade. And in true royal fashion, Holly Willoughby touched down on the Worthy Farm site by helicopter yesterday to join more than 200,000 music fans. But residents of neighbouring Pilton in Somerset are furious at the number of choppers ferrying A-listers over their farms, as one told the Mail: 'We've never seen this many coming into the festival – it's insane. 'On Thursday there was a cluster of five, one after the other. 'It's getting ridiculous now and quite frankly the organisers need to get a handle on it – it's so anti-social and not in the spirit of Glasto.' Setting off from London's Battersea heliport yesterday, the 44-year-old flew for 50 minutes and was at the festival by 1.30pm. Helicopter firm Air Charter – which sells return tickets for £13,950 – reckons it saves its celebrity customers up to eight hours per journey compared with driving. Beaming in the festival's VIP section, the former This Morning host sported a £365 pair of tan Grenson boots from her own line and a £158 blouse from Free People over a white dress and belt, with a Stetson hat. Ms Willoughby has previously stayed at the five-star Babington House hotel while attending the event, which is a half-hour drive from the site, and gets a taxi in each day. Meanwhile, nearby luxury campsite Camp Kerala, which costs £8,000 for five days, shared a picture on social media showing a line of helicopters and Rolls-Royces awaiting VIPs. With ticket prices at a minimum of £385, the 45-year-old festival has faced growing criticism that it has abandoned its hedonistic roots, and this year was dubbed 'Butlin's for the British middle class'. The Mail approached festival bosses for a comment. Other celebs spotted at the event so far include Barbie star Margot Robbie, 34, with her producer husband Tom Ackerley, eight months after giving birth to their first child. Yesterday, moustachioed Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch, 48, read out letters from around the world in the Greenpeace area in a feature called 'Letters Live'. Meanwhile, thousands of unsuspecting fans were treated to surprise performances from Lewis Capaldi and Lorde yesterday. Capaldi choked back tears as he declared 'I'm back baby' during an emotional return to Glastonbury's iconic Pyramid Stage. The Scottish singer, 28, was greeted by cheers, two years after his Tourette's condition left him unable to finish his set and led to a career hiatus. He told the crowd: 'Two years ago I wasn't sure if I'd ever do this again, but I'm back baby!' And Lorde, also 28, sent fans into a frenzy with a surprise slot on the Woodsies stage, which saw her whip off her top in temperatures of 27C (81F).
