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Daily Mirror
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Lily James to play billionaire Bumble founder in Disney+ dating app biopic
Lily James will play the youngest female self-made billionaire in upcoming biopic 'Swiped', she will play founder and CEO of Bumble, Whitney Wolfe Herd showing her break into the tech industry Former Disney princess Lily James is set to play the youngest self-made billionaire in her upcoming project. James will take on the role of founder and CEO of Bumble, Whitney Wolfe Herd, in a biopic that will follow her journey to creating two of the biggest dating apps of our time. The film introduces Wolfe Herd as a recent university graduate and shows her time at Tinder as a co-founder in a male-dominated industry. The trailer follows Wolfe Herd as she breaks into the industry and launches a new innovative dating app, Bumble. Swiped is directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg, best known for Unpregnant and Valley Girl. Goldenberg had her breakthrough after she was discovered by Will Ferrell. Swiped will be at the Toronto International Film Festival in the Gala Presentations section and the world premiere will be on September 9th. While little is known about the film, the film is centred around Whitney Wolfe Herd who started out working in Tinder as the Vice President of marketing and reportedly was responsible for the name. She resigned in 2014 due to increasing tensions with other company executives. For more stories like this subscribe to our weekly newsletter, The Weekly Gulp, for a curated roundup of trending stories, poignant interviews, and viral lifestyle picks from The Mirror's Audience U35 team delivered straight to your inbox. On June 30th 2014, she filed a lawsuit against Tinder for sexual harassment. It was reported that she received over US$1 million as part of a settlement in September 2014. She began developing a female-focused dating app and founded Bumble in December 2014. By November 2017, Bumble had over 22 million registered users. And by September 2019, Tinder and Bumble were the first and second most popular dating apps in the US. Their monthly user bases were 7.9 million and 5 million respectively. On Bumble they count 94,000 users each day and every week 23 million new matches are made using Bumble. When Bumble was taken public she became the world's youngest female billionaire in 2021. She stepped down as Bumble's CEO in November 2023 but stepped up again in January 2025. As of 2024, Forbes has reported her net worth as $400 million (£296 million). In 2022, she was listed by Forbes at number 33 for the top 100 "America's richest self-made women". The Hulu film around her life also stars Dan Stevens, Myha'la, Jackson White and Pierson Fodé.
Irish Examiner
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Examiner
The Beacon review: West Cork-set play hit by stormy seas at the Everyman
The Beacon, Everyman Theatre, Cork ★★★☆☆ There's no mistaking where we are with The Beacon, a bank of large video screens on the Everyman Theatre stage projecting images of a roiling ocean, and a smoke machine sending a veil of sea mist across the auditorium. It's a bold and stylish opening to this play by Dublin writer Nancy Harris, originally commissioned by Druid Theatre. The action takes place on an island off West Cork near the distinctive landmark of the title, where Beiv (Geraldine Hughes), a well-known artist, has taken up residence in her former summer home. It's not only the seas that are stormy; Beiv's son Colm (Leonard Buckley) is visiting from the US with his new wife Bonnie (Ayoola Smart) and the tensions in the parental relationship rise immediately to the surface. The mysterious death of Beiv's husband at sea has reared its head again, thanks to a prying podcaster, and to complicate matters, also present is Donal (Ross O'Donnellan) a surrogate son who has a tangled history with actual son Colm. Ross O'Donnellan and Leonard Buckley in a scene from The Beacon at the Everyman in Cork. Picture: Miki Barlok Harris is an accomplished writer with an impressive CV but she has thrown the kitchen sink at this script. Artistic selfishness, feminism, sexuality, repression, parental neglect, toxic masculinity, mental health, the prurience of true-crime podcasts, the summer home gentrification of coastal locations — there are so many topics and themes fighting for attention that none of it communicates any clear meaning, leaving the entire play struggling to find the right tone. The murder mystery sub-plot is devoid of any suspense and pacing of scenes is erratic, with Beiv not present for much of the second half, and a jarringly superfluous appearance by podcaster Ray, gamely played by Stephen O'Leary. Dialogue is stilted at times, and while O'Donnellan tries his best with the Cork accent, the modulation is distractingly awry. In contrast, Ayoola Smart, who grew up in West Cork, pulls off a very convincing American accent, complete with annoying Valley Girl intonation. The Killing Eve and Cocaine Bear star has real stage presence, the play coming alive in her sparky scenes with Bonnie. There are striking touches in the direction and staging, including the silhouetted reveals during scene changes, lighting design and the plaintive and portentous soundscape. Overall, however, the production flounders, not helped by a convoluted and downbeat ending. The Beacon is at the Everyman, Cork, until July 19
Times
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
Clueless (1995) review — it's difficult to overstate the impact of this film
It's difficult to overstate the reach of this Amy Heckerling teen standard. It's a loose revamp of Jane Austen's Emma that buzzes with the kind of emphatic 'Valspeak' (Valley Girl parlance) that eventually spread beyond the cinema and helped transform the very rhythm of spoken English. And so, while Alicia Silverstone as Cher (the Emma Woodhouse to Paul Rudd's Mr Knightley) conspires to matchmake teachers and new high-school students alike, we learn that she is consistently 'like, totally' disappointed with failure. She greets an unwanted male arm around her shoulder with a wince and a baffled 'as if!' And her dyspeptic classmate Amber (Elisa Donovan) demonstrates her studied boredom with thumbs and fingers posed in the shape of a 'W' accompanied by a long-drawn-out 'what-ever!' Some of the Clueless words and phrases that didn't make it, alas? Calling an attractive woman 'a Betty'. And, infamously, describing menstruation as 'I was surfing the crimson wave'.★★★★☆12A, 97minIn cinemas from Jun 27 Times+ members can enjoy two-for-one cinema tickets at Everyman each Wednesday. Visit to find out more Follow @timesculture to read the latest reviews
Int'l Business Times
03-06-2025
- Business
- Int'l Business Times
Why Marina Mogilko's 'Silicon Valley Girl' Podcast Is Exactly What the Innovation Economy Needs Right Now
Marina Mogilko In a media ecosystem oversaturated with founder bios and five-minute thought leadership clips, Marina Mogilko is opting for something else: depth. The entrepreneur and digital creator, best known for building a multi-million-dollar language platform and cultivating a massive YouTube presence, has announced the expansion of her flagship interview series, Silicon Valley Girl, as a weekly podcast, available on all major podcast platforms starting June 4th. But this isn't just a content pivot, it's a strategic expansion rooted in a broader trend: the demand for more honest, globally attuned conversations in tech and business. "The goal has always been to decode success," Mogilko says. "But more than that, I want to explore the human cost of growth, what people aren't saying on stages or in press releases." And in that mission lies the heart of Silicon Valley Girl 2.0. Mogilko's rise wasn't forged in the typical startup circuit. She moved to the U.S. from St. Petersburg, Russia, taught herself the intricacies of visa applications, and turned her experience into a business: LinguaTrip, an online education and study-abroad platform that now serves users across multiple continents. Her first traction came not from seed funding or accelerator buzz, but from YouTube, where her clarity, relatability, and transparent business breakdowns made her a standout in both the edtech and creator communities. Today, she has over 17 million followers across her digital channels and a reputation for demystifying complicated systems, whether it's immigration paperwork or venture term sheets. That hybrid expertise, part educator, part operator, part media strategist, is what makes her voice resonate in an era where audiences are increasingly skeptical of polished narratives and growth-at-all-costs messaging. The Silicon Valley Girl podcast debuts with a high-caliber lineup that spans industries and ideologies; Coco Rocha, on modeling, mentorship, and modern entrepreneurship, Reid Hoffman, discussing AI, ethics, and the future of intelligent systems, Jenny Lei, unpacking burnout and money culture in Gen Z-led startups, Blake Scholl, reflecting on aerospace innovation and the long runway to disruption. What Mogilko is building isn't just a guest-driven show, it's a platform where long-form dialogue is used to examine how innovation collides with identity, morality, and mental health. And that framing matters. While most business media continues to chase performance metrics and trend cycles, Silicon Valley Girl chooses a different metric: insight density. "Listeners want substance," Mogilko says. "They're tired of recycled headlines. They want to understand how leaders think, how they fail, how What Mogilko understands better than most is that her audience isn't just U.S.-based. Her influence spans Eastern Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and India, regions increasingly producing the next generation of digital professionals, many of whom don't see themselves reflected in traditional media coverage of tech. This international credibility gives her a unique vantage point: a founder who's both inside and outside Silicon Valley's core, translating industry-speak into something more grounded, and more globally relevant. Her growing focus on angel investing, especially in women- and immigrant-led startups, further signals her long-term commitment to the ecosystem she's documenting. In many ways, Silicon Valley Girl isn't just a show about innovation, it's a node in the network Mogilko continues to build, support, and invest in. Looking ahead, Mogilko hopes to expand the podcast's reach by featuring underrepresented founders, cross-border investors, and creatives who are monetizing influence without conforming to tech-industry norms. She's interested in what she calls "builders with a conscience", people making meaningful decisions, not just profitable ones. And in a media landscape still learning how to cover complexity, that's a differentiator. Where many business podcasts summarize ideas, Silicon Valley Girl interrogates them. It opens space for vulnerability, uncertainty, and nuance, traits often excluded from pitch decks but essential to the future of responsible innovation. Silicon Valley Girl will be available on major podcast platforms starting June 4th. New episodes will be released weekly. Learn more at or follow Marina Mogilko on YouTube .
Yahoo
01-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Ageless 80s Icon, 63, Reenacts Famous Valley Girl Scene
Ageless 80s Icon, 63, Reenacts Famous Valley Girl Scene originally appeared on Parade. Actress E.G. Daily isn't forgetting where it all started. The Valley Girl star is getting back to her '80s roots by reenacting a famous scene from the hit teen movie, which also starred Nicolas Cage (as the unlikely heartthrob Randy) and Deborah Foreman (as the conflicted popular girl Julie Richman).Daily, who has since built an incredibly successful career in voiceover work for animated shows and movies like Rugrats and The Powerpuff Girls, played Julie's wild-child best friend, Loryn. While Foreman and Cage delivered plenty of totally tubular lines — like Foreman's classic, 'Yeah, but Tommy can be such a dork, ya know? Like he's got the bod, but his brains are bad news' — it's the movie's iconic sleepover scene that remains one of the most memorable moments of the cult classic. Now 63 (and barely looking a day older than her Valley Girl character), Daily reenacted the famous sleepover dance scene in a recent TikTok video, set to the movie's irresistible opening credits song: 'Girls Like Me' by Bonnie Hayes & The Wild Combo. Fans loved E.G.'s trip back to 1983. One commented, 'Valley Girl is highly underrated.' Agreed. Another wrote, 'Nobody will understand how we felt when we saw that movie.' Totally hearing that iconic theme song brings back rad memories of Saturdays at the mall and endless calls on the family rotary phone. Thanks for the throwback, E.G.! 🎬SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox🎬 Ageless 80s Icon, 63, Reenacts Famous Valley Girl Scene first appeared on Parade on May 30, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on May 30, 2025, where it first appeared.
