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Elle
22-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Elle
All That's Known About Alexander Skarsgård and Girlfriend Tuva Novotny's Very Private Love Story
THE RUNDOWN Alexander Skarsgård is known for playing enigmatic, unpredictable characters—from Eric Northman in True Blood to Lukas Matsson in Succession. When it comes to his real life, the award-winning actor prefers to keep things quiet. That discretion extends to his relationship with Swedish actress and director Tuva Novotny. While it's unclear when exactly they started dated, the pair was first romantically linked in 2022 and have since welcomed a child. Skarsgård confirmed the news of his baby in March 2023 after he was seen out with his firstborn in November 2022. Below, everything to know about Novotny, Skarsgård's partner and mother of his child. Novotny, 45, began acting professionally at age 16 , but her exposure to the arts started far earlier. 'I wasn't pushed; I was inspired,' she told Vogue Scandinavia in 2024, recalling how she directed plays with her siblings and grew up immersed in music, painting, and theater. Since then, she has racked up an extensive list of acting credits, including roles in Eat Pray Love, Annihilation, and more. She's also made a name for herself behind the camera. Her film Blind Spot (2018) explored mental health and family trauma. The project—the first film she has directed—earned her the New Talent Grand Prix at Copenhagen's CPH PIX Festival that year. 'Blind Spot refers to what we don't see in our everyday life,' Novotny said in a 2018 interview with the Golden Globes. 'Where we can be surprised about what is going on in people's lives, where they go around smiling and pretending that everything is fine, and they are actually having a very difficult time. That is the blind spot that I am referring to.' Novotny had built up directing experience before doing the project, working in TV: 'I always knew I wanted to direct, but I wanted to make sure that I was [ready] for it,' she explained. 'Ten years ago, some friends of mine asked if I could direct a few episodes of a Norwegian TV series, and they brought me onto their next project. This was very good as a self-esteem enhancer. And after those TV series, I decided that either I do TV for the rest of my life or it is now that I decide to do my own things. I took a year off and started writing a couple of scripts. [I] wrote a series for a Norwegian channel so it kind of happened organically but also at a point where I felt it was the right moment.' She went on to direct more films: Britt-Marie Was Here (2019) and Diorama (2022). 'After Blind Spot and Britt Marie Was Here, I felt safer about directing small or bigger-budget movies and taking on new creative challenges,' Novotny told Variety in 2019. Novotny is the daughter of Czech director and writer David Jan Novotný and Swedish actress and artist Barbro Hedström. Though Novotny's early exposure to the creative world was significant, she told Vogue Scandinavia that her career path felt natural. 'The apple doesn't fall far from the tree,' she said. In April 2022, Novotny appeared pregnant at the Swedish ELLE Fashion Awards, though she did not publicly confirm the news at the time. Months later in November, the couple was photographed in New York City pushing a stroller, adding fuel to speculation they welcomed their first child. While at the Succession season 4 premiere in March 2023, Skarsgård confirmed the news to Entertainment Tonight, saying, 'Thank you very much,' when congratulated. He then held up a stuffed animal he had just been gifted, adding, 'I got this on the red carpet.' A few days later, he offered a more specific confirmation to Swedish outlet Aftonbladet, revealing that they had a baby boy. 'We have a son who is eight months old now,' Skarsgård said. In a May 2025 interview with The Times, Skarsgård reflected on how parenthood changed his lifestyle. 'It's been an adjustment for someone who's a selfish asshole like myself,' he said. ''I'm so used to being able to go somewhere on a whim, take a job, like, 'Oh, seven months in the Kalahari Desert? No problem.' Now your priorities obviously change, and you have to take other people's needs into consideration. It takes a lot more planning to make it work because I still love to work, but it's about finding that balance.'' He also referenced his role in helping to raise Novotny's children from a previous relationship: 'I have two teenage stepdaughters, so it's not like they can come with me and be out of school for six months.' Despite her extensive resumé, Novotny tends to avoid media attention. 'I don't see myself as a public person,' she said in her 2024 Vogue Scandinavia profile. 'For many years, I wouldn't do interviews; I wouldn't watch my own stuff.' She added, 'My job is public and then what I do outside of work is super private.' Vogue Scandinavia wrote that Novotny previously had an Instagram account for work but has since deleted it. Novotny has spoken about balancing her creative ambitions with motherhood. 'It's super important that you keep yourself intact, and that's difficult being a parent,' she told Vogue Scandinavia. Noting that she has 'always worked through parenthood,' Novotny added, 'Work for me is a place where I feel inspired and I meet people—there's that social aspect. Bringing that back home is a good thing for parenting—for me, at least. Only being a parent sometimes can be claustrophobic.' She also acknowledged the changes in the industry since she began acting as a teenager in the '90s. 'It was a different time,' she said. 'It was sexy times, and they wanted me to be sexy.'
The Guardian
19-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Are Arsenal finally signing Viktor Gyökeres? It's already real in the digital hive mind
The current edition of France Football magazine has a photo of Viktor Gyökeres on the cover. Not that I've looked at it much, or pored over its details searching for meaning, but the photo shows Gyökeres half in shade, half in sun, displaying his famously shredded physique, not so much the standard male musculature, more a selection of lines and bulges, like he's made entirely from giant walnuts, like a perfect human challah loaf designed by a robot. In the photo Gyökeres is smiling with a kind of fervour, as though he's about to sell you a miracle muscle powder. And I for one would buy this powder. Make me into a cyborg, Viktor. Maximise my hidden hyper-potential. Basically, I want Viktor Gyökeres to hold me brusquely in his arms while he talks about good proteins and explains the blockchain, in a way that isn't sexual. Not for me anyway, but that definitely is for him. There is also, and you've probably seen this – I for one have barely noticed it – a breathlessly excited Viktor Gyökeres profile in the June/July issue of Vogue Scandinavia, which has him posing by his pool in biscuit-coloured linens looking like an incredibly handsome psychopath. And yes, the profile talks about 'piercing eyes' and 'muscles stretching away at his white T-shirt', but it's not salacious or cheap because Gyökeres is also 'a complex and multifaceted individual', whose PlayStation-pad football house is in fact alluring, soulful and 'a byproduct of transience'. Yes Viktor Gyökeres. Let me rescue you. I will make you a home. I will bake for you. To what extent does a thing still have to happen for it to be classed as real? This feels like a key question right now, not just in football, where everything is simultaneously happening and has already happened, but in life generally, the final battle between the fake and the real, a question that must be broken down into ever more granular questions. What is 'real'? What is 'happening'? What is 'Viktor Gyökeres'? Despite the evidence above of rigorous journalistic research, I don't really know much about Gyökeres beyond the stuff everyone knows. I have no great interest in whether he signs for Arsenal or not until he actually does, at which point he will become just another guy in an ever-shifting cast of guys, something real that now has to actually happen. Reality can wait, though. We aren't there yet. We are instead still drifting along in the endless summer of Gyökeres, witnesses to a yearning that feels like art, and that is in many ways better than actual football. We know this process now. It is necessary to fight it every summer. Don't get sucked in. Look away from the churn. This one, however, feels like a step up. It has been two months of hive-mind longing over on GyökeresHereWeGoX, a place where details, comments, images bubble up and surge, overwhelm the senses, then disappear like summer storms. This seemed to have peaked on Thursday with EXCLUSIVE news that there would that same day be an EXCLUSIVE prefiguring the actual EXCLUSIVE, a here we go for the here we go for the here we actually go. Footage appeared of a house (is it a house?) that allegedly shows Gyökeres (is it him?) moving out his furniture (is it furniture?). Later, there was talk of a plane leaving Stockholm bound for Biggin Hill airport, complete with detailed flightpath screenshots, which was then rubbished by a secondary cohort of Biggin Hill truthers. Wait! His brother has followed Arsenal on Instagram! A medical is booked for Friday, even if there is no evidence of this, just talk about talk of a presumed medical on a hypothetical Friday. This has become a little over-ripe by now, a descent into 450-word long posts about the stock exchange, financial gaming and announcement-delay. Gyökeres himself has long since become more meme than man. Is it a joke? Is this all post-irony? If a plane takes off and nobody knows if Victor Gyökeres is on it, but excitement at the idea Victor Gyökeres may be on it feels real, is Victor Gyökeres actually inside the plane?. It would be easy here to dismiss this phenomenon, to see evidence of the idiot-trajectory of the human race, of content addiction, of the fact big Euro-football must never not be happening. But this is also a supremely well‑curated media industry now, fed by the great transfluencers of our time, Fab, Orny, the other ones. It is also a kind of mass social experiment. Psychologists like to talk about the Anticipation Effect, the principle that anticipation of an event can release more dopamine to the brain than the actual experience. Having Gyökeres in your team is good. Talking about Gyökeres, visualising this, war-gaming it, making it real in the digital mind: this is a life choice, something to make your blood move, like jabbing a fork into your kneecap just so you get to feel something. The emotions here are nuanced. Studies show anticipation also generates anxiety, to the extent it can overshadow the event itself, or make it feel like it has already happened. There are people out there who seem genuinely convinced Gyökeres is already not just a failure but a proven fraud. I can recite by heart the ratio of Portuguese league goals against teams in the bottom four (43.6%). Never mind the fact this always happens because those teams are worse, or that Erling Haaland, for example, has built a career around stamping on ants. Or that I am being sucked in here in real time, arguing over things that haven't happened but still kind of have, like the whole thing is a super-smart Andy Warhol installation called Goal Abs or Nothing Is True. There are reasons why this one feels more significant. There are good human subplots. Can you make the leap up? Can a career that turned on a 17-goal season in the Championship become elite at this late stage? Gyökeres has been wrapped in a convincing origins story. There are Proustian elements, some talk in France Football of a sensory reconnection with the childhood lust for goals, the clank of the stanchion, the need to 'start playing again like I did when I was a child'. Sign up to Football Daily Kick off your evenings with the Guardian's take on the world of football after newsletter promotion Gyökeres is also perfect for the internet. He's not into feelings. He's into the body. We know about his magic super-breakfast, the ginger shot, the strawberries, blueberries and pomegranates, plus three – not two, not four – eggs. He seems to be pitching himself as real, analogue, anti-academy. Gyökeres says he stayed at IFK Aspudden-Tellus so long because 'it built me differently from others', and I for one can already hear him saying this on a seven-hour Joe Rogan podcast. The spell at Brighton is dismissed as not 'a good environment'. A return to the Premier League would be a chance for 'revenge'. Arsenal host Graham Potter's West Ham in October. We're talking about revenge. We're self third-personing ('You haven't seen the best of Gyökeres yet'). Is he as good as Kane, Lewandowski, Haaland? 'It's difficult to rank me, but yes, I'm at the same table as them.' How could you not want to see this? There are also two football things that make it interesting. First, this is the perfect what-if transfer. It's beautifully linear. It's 2+2. Saying Arsenal need a striker has gone on for so long it has become a kind of mass lament, a bardic cycle. The current candidates are Gabriel Jesus, an almost guy, and Kai Havertz who is good but also looks like the foppish minor cousin a Jane Austen heroine is required to fall in love with before the arrival of handsome, brooding Mr Lordly of Lord Hall. Well, now you get to sign a 27-year-old goal-maniac whose nicknames are The Machine, The Cyborg, The Viking, The Cannibal and The Tractor. This is simply the thing you asked for, on a tray, ready to go. Here is a very good No 9 with zero reasons not to succeed, who will probably do so because a stage has been built, and because of the evidence of hard numbers, which are all that really matter in this dynamic. The other thing here is closure. If Gyökeres does sign for Arsenal this will inevitably become a referendum on the Mikel Arteta era, which has become mired in a very annoying discussion about actual success. Is second good? Is this progress? Whatever you think of Arteta's cinematic passion, the Lego figure on the heath pointing at the skies dynamic, it is undeniably real, undeniably a quest for victory. There will be a crunch point here. There have already been rumblings. The Thomas Partey saga was weird, unsavoury and remains a potential timebomb. Now you have your Martín Zubimendi. You have the muscle-goal athlete, the finisher. Addition and success. Or limitations pinned and wriggling on the wall. For now we have the longest day, a here-we-go waiting to happen. Do I dare to scroll? Or can we linger a little longer, remain in that dream state, half in sun, half in shade, muscles perfectly sculpted, all promise, all what-next, before being dragged out into the light?
CNN
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
Breaking records, Olympic gold and a music debut: Mondo Duplantis tells CNN about ‘life-changing' year
The last 12 months have been a whirlwind for Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis. Having already been one of the most recognizable faces in track and field, the Swedish pole-vaulter catapulted himself to even greater heights in a remarkable year for the 25-year-old. Not only did he break his own world record to win his second Olympic gold medal in Paris last summer, but he became engaged to his long-time girlfriend and also has made his first foray in the music scene with a debut single. His achievements were recognized at last month's Laureus World Sports Awards in Madrid, winning the Sportsman of the Year award to become just the second track and field athlete to do so after Usain Bolt. And after what he calls a 'life-changing' year, Duplantis says there is more to come. 'I do still have that confidence that going into (the 2028 Olympic Games) in LA, I'm going to be in even better shape. I can jump even higher,' Duplantis told CNN Sports in an exclusive interview. 'I'm going to do something just like that, make a big splash, can maybe break a record again and something like that.' When it comes to dominating a single sport, no one has done it quite like Duplantis in pole vaulting in recent years. He is one of only three men to hold the pole vault world record in the 21st century, setting 11 world records on his own since first doing so in 2020 as he's singlehandedly raised the level from 6.17m to 6.27m over five seasons. Duplantis went from top-level athlete to global superstar at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris when he broke the world record of 6.25m on his third and final attempt in front of the world. In February, he needed just one attempt to break the record again. Duplantis revealed to CNN that he is confident he will reach the 6.30m (roughly 20.67 feet) mark in the near future. That moment in France came with a huge increase in attention on Duplantis' achievements, gaining a large amount of followers on social media and shooting to international stardom; he also proposed to girlfriend Desiré Inglander during a photoshoot for Vogue Scandinavia in October last year. He admits that the added attention he's received has made him think about his place in the sporting world, in particular around pole vaulting, while he also tries to remain grounded. 'I think maybe you can see it even now more than ever that things can get a bit separated in track and field and I want pole vaulting to be able to stand on its own two legs. I think that's very important,' he told CNN Sports. 'It's pretty easy to get caught up if you think about too many people that are following you or looking at you. 'I think that's a weird thing to conceptualize. I try to just go about my business. I know that I'm a good guy and I just try to do things that I feel like are right and I guess hopefully lead by a good example, which is for the most part I think the most inspiring thing is just a real passion and love for the sport and doing what I love from the very beginning and hopefully that can inspire.' He is currently on a run of 28 straight victories and, during his time at the top of the sport, Duplantis has collected two Olympic titles, two world championships and plenty of other accolades. Duplantis admits that the trophies he's earning won't be something he can fully appreciate until he's hung up the pole. And he also says that while his last 12 months look perfect 'on paper,' it was the result of plenty of 'ups and downs.' '(There were) parts where I feel like I wasn't where I wanted to be or where I needed to be like at that moment, but I think that that's what also pushed me to be where I had to be and needed to be at the right moments like in the Olympics and the finals and whatnot,' he explained. 'Because I feel like I had a bit of a lackluster start to the season. I feel like it really wasn't where I wanted to be. But I think that that's why I was able to perform so well in the outdoor season because it gave me that fire and made me learn what I need to do and what I need to fix and change going into the outdoor season. So (it was) perfect in the sense of I did everything that I wanted to do.' While Duplantis' pole-vaulting accolades speak for themselves, he has still found time to enjoy the other aspects of his life. In September last year, he beat 400-meter hurdle sensation Karsten Warholm in an exhibition 100-meter race in Switzerland, finishing the race in an impressive 10.37 seconds. Duplantis said that he's keen to try other races at different lengths in the future, although he does admit that he would get 'smoked' if he was to enter a competitive race in Michael Johnson's newly created Grand Slam Track series, preferring to stay in a 'guest race.' He's also found time to dip his toes into the music booth too, releasing his debut single 'Bop' in February this year. Music has long been a passion for Duplantis, explaining that he was in a choir as a youngster and spent many hours in the studio in Sweden when he wasn't honing his sporting skills. Having lost touch with his musical side for many years, Duplantis says he fell back into it about three years ago and set about dabbling in creating his own music. Duplantis released 'Bop' on the same day as his most recent world record in February, with the song played over the stadium's speakers as he made his record-breaking jump. He admits to being 'quite nervous' when the song was released and says there is 'more to come.' 'I really love and I think that it's good for me as a person and as an athlete,' he said.
CNN
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
Breaking records, Olympic gold and a music debut: Mondo Duplantis tells CNN about ‘life-changing' year
The last 12 months have been a whirlwind for Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis. Having already been one of the most recognizable faces in track and field, the Swedish pole-vaulter catapulted himself to even greater heights in a remarkable year for the 25-year-old. Not only did he break his own world record to win his second Olympic gold medal in Paris last summer, but he became engaged to his long-time girlfriend and also has made his first foray in the music scene with a debut single. His achievements were recognized at last month's Laureus World Sports Awards in Madrid, winning the Sportsman of the Year award to become just the second track and field athlete to do so after Usain Bolt. And after what he calls a 'life-changing' year, Duplantis says there is more to come. 'I do still have that confidence that going into (the 2028 Olympic Games) in LA, I'm going to be in even better shape. I can jump even higher,' Duplantis told CNN Sports in an exclusive interview. 'I'm going to do something just like that, make a big splash, can maybe break a record again and something like that.' When it comes to dominating a single sport, no one has done it quite like Duplantis in pole vaulting in recent years. He is one of only three men to hold the pole vault world record in the 21st century, setting 11 world records on his own since first doing so in 2020 as he's singlehandedly raised the level from 6.17m to 6.27m over five seasons. Duplantis went from top-level athlete to global superstar at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris when he broke the world record of 6.25m on his third and final attempt in front of the world. In February, he needed just one attempt to break the record again. Duplantis revealed to CNN that he is confident he will reach the 6.30m (roughly 20.67 feet) mark in the near future. That moment in France came with a huge increase in attention on Duplantis' achievements, gaining a large amount of followers on social media and shooting to international stardom; he also proposed to girlfriend Desiré Inglander during a photoshoot for Vogue Scandinavia in October last year. He admits that the added attention he's received has made him think about his place in the sporting world, in particular around pole vaulting, while he also tries to remain grounded. 'I think maybe you can see it even now more than ever that things can get a bit separated in track and field and I want pole vaulting to be able to stand on its own two legs. I think that's very important,' he told CNN Sports. 'It's pretty easy to get caught up if you think about too many people that are following you or looking at you. 'I think that's a weird thing to conceptualize. I try to just go about my business. I know that I'm a good guy and I just try to do things that I feel like are right and I guess hopefully lead by a good example, which is for the most part I think the most inspiring thing is just a real passion and love for the sport and doing what I love from the very beginning and hopefully that can inspire.' He is currently on a run of 28 straight victories and, during his time at the top of the sport, Duplantis has collected two Olympic titles, two world championships and plenty of other accolades. Duplantis admits that the trophies he's earning won't be something he can fully appreciate until he's hung up the pole. And he also says that while his last 12 months look perfect 'on paper,' it was the result of plenty of 'ups and downs.' '(There were) parts where I feel like I wasn't where I wanted to be or where I needed to be like at that moment, but I think that that's what also pushed me to be where I had to be and needed to be at the right moments like in the Olympics and the finals and whatnot,' he explained. 'Because I feel like I had a bit of a lackluster start to the season. I feel like it really wasn't where I wanted to be. But I think that that's why I was able to perform so well in the outdoor season because it gave me that fire and made me learn what I need to do and what I need to fix and change going into the outdoor season. So (it was) perfect in the sense of I did everything that I wanted to do.' While Duplantis' pole-vaulting accolades speak for themselves, he has still found time to enjoy the other aspects of his life. In September last year, he beat 400-meter hurdle sensation Karsten Warholm in an exhibition 100-meter race in Switzerland, finishing the race in an impressive 10.37 seconds. Duplantis said that he's keen to try other races at different lengths in the future, although he does admit that he would get 'smoked' if he was to enter a competitive race in Michael Johnson's newly created Grand Slam Track series, preferring to stay in a 'guest race.' He's also found time to dip his toes into the music booth too, releasing his debut single 'Bop' in February this year. Music has long been a passion for Duplantis, explaining that he was in a choir as a youngster and spent many hours in the studio in Sweden when he wasn't honing his sporting skills. Having lost touch with his musical side for many years, Duplantis says he fell back into it about three years ago and set about dabbling in creating his own music. Duplantis released 'Bop' on the same day as his most recent world record in February, with the song played over the stadium's speakers as he made his record-breaking jump. He admits to being 'quite nervous' when the song was released and says there is 'more to come.' 'I really love and I think that it's good for me as a person and as an athlete,' he said.
Yahoo
16-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Princess Sofia Reveals Daughter's Name for the First Time (& There's a Special Meaning)
Princess Sofia and Prince Carl Philip of Sweden have finally got a little girl to dote on, and are ready to introduce her to the world. After welcoming their princess into the royal family fold on Feb 7, it was King Carl XVI Gustaf who revealed her name for the first time, choosing his appearance at the Council of State at the Royal Palace for the big news. Her name? Princess Ines Marie Lilian Silvia, which pays homage to her grandmothers on both sides—Carl Philip's mother, Queen Silvia, and Sofia's mother, Marie. Princess Ines Marie joins her brothers, Prince Alexander, 8, Prince Gabriel, 7, and Prince Julian, 3, making the family a party of six. The announcement of baby number four was made in September via their official Instagram account, alongside an oceanside selfie and caption that read, 'Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia have the great pleasure to announce that the Princess is expecting the couple's fourth child. Princess Sofia is doing well and the offspring is estimated to be February 2025. During the fall, no changes are expected to Princess Sofia's official program.' It was also announced during that time period that Princess Ines Marie will not receive the official HRH title ("His Royal Highness"), due to King Carl XVI Gustaf's decision to streamline the Swedish royal family in 2019. A few months afterwards, Princess Sofia sat down with Vogue Scandinavia for an interview that celebrated her 40th birthday and discussed her pregnancy, telling the publication, 'I always, always, always dreamt of a family. It's one of my biggest goals in life. Not everyone has that – I had that. Both me and my husband come from a family of five – with three kids – so we thought that that would be a good number, and we felt quite satisfied with that. But, gratefully, there's a bonus on the way. We feel very humble and grateful. It was maybe not in the plan, but now we are very, very excited. Especially the kids.' Congratulations to the happy couple! Here's How Princess Beatrice's Daughter, Athena, Will Affect the British Line of Succession PureWow's editors and writers have spent more than a decade shopping online, digging through sales and putting our home goods, beauty finds, wellness picks and more through the wringer—all to help you determine which are actually worth your hard-earned cash. From our PureWow100 series (where we rank items on a 100-point scale) to our painstakingly curated lists of fashion, beauty, cooking, home and family picks, you can trust that our recommendations have been thoroughly vetted for function, aesthetics and innovation. Whether you're looking for travel-size hair dryers you can take on-the-go or women's walking shoes that won't hurt your feet, we've got you covered.
