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The Guardian
12 hours ago
- Health
- The Guardian
Thigh guy summer? Men's short shorts in high demand and steering swimwear
Recent victims of shrinkflation have included butter, mouthwash and teabags. The next casualty? Men's shorts. In-seams are rising with retailers reporting a surge in interest for short shorts featuring a 5in and even 3in inside leg measurement. Now the trend is having a knock-on effect on swimwear. This week, GQ magazine posed the question: 'Are Straight Guys Ready for Speedo Summer?' Google searches for Speedos are up 41% year on year in the UK, while the swim brief category is up 17% globally. The fashion stylist Luke Day, who owns more than 50 pairs of swimming briefs, isn't surprised. 'Shorts have become so short it's like: what is next? The answer has to be swimwear.' It's not even June but already a so-called thigh guy summer is well under way in Europe. Earlier this week, the actor Alexander Skarsgård appeared on the British breakfast TV show Lorraine in a pair of checked shorts with a 5in in-seam from the designer S.S. Daley. Curtseying before host Ranvir Singh, Skarsgard said: 'I wanted to be sexy today.' Elsewhere, the latest edition of the art and design magazine Cultured, stars the 53-year-old White Lotus star Walton Goggins on its cover, manspreading in a pair of canary yellow Speedos. Some are calling it the Mescal effect. Five years ago, the Irish actor Paul Mescal became a household name after his role in the TV drama series Normal People. But it was a photograph of Mescal wearing a pair of micro shorts, snapped when leaving a supermarket in east London, that really thrust him into the spotlight. Overnight, shorts were shortened. This season's catwalks were dominated by short shorts with versions appearing at Gucci, Hermès and Dior. Celebrities including Harry Styles, Pharrell Williams, Jeremy Allen White and Donald Glover have all channelled John Travolta in Pulp Fiction with maximum leg-bearing short shorts. Now the trend is going mainstream. On Thursday, Marks & Spencer launched its summer campaign, which positions a pair of banana-printed swim shorts with a 3in in-seam as a wardrobe staple. At John Lewis, bestsellers in its short category include 5in in-seams from Under Armour, while it is micro shorts from Paul Smith and Lacoste are trending in swimwear. Day's preference for short shorts predates Mescal and Gucci by a decade. 'As a gay man I feel we are often pioneers of trends. I've been wearing short shorts for 10 years. But now straight men are wearing them. They want to show off their thighs.' He credits the boom in popularity to a wider interest in health and wellbeing. 'The biggest flex at the moment isn't a designer item. It is your body. People want to show how hard they have been working out.' Orlebar Brown, a British resort wear brand whose swim shorts have been worn by everyone from Hugh Jackman to David Cameron, offers four different in-seam lengths ranging from 6in that hits just above the knee to 3in that grazes the upper quads. Its chief marketing officer, Trevor Hardy, says the shortest style, called the Springer, is 'already becoming more prevalent this year' among its customers. 'Men are becoming more adventurous. Even the most non-fashion conscious man is dressing with more confidence.' Sign up to Fashion Statement Style, with substance: what's really trending this week, a roundup of the best fashion journalism and your wardrobe dilemmas solved after newsletter promotion Brief styles are mandatory at French swimming pools and commonplace on Italian beaches but a rise in cold swimming and sauna culture is also fuelling interest in the UK. Traditional trunks cannot be worn under wetsuits. Briefs and tighter fitting swim shorts also absorb less water making them more suitable for moving between plunge pools. In Australia, yellow and pink styles from AussieBum are a go-to. Speedo's new Jetstream collection takes inspiration from the 1980s with drawcord briefs measuring 3.5in, compared with the 13.5in fit of its standard training briefs. For first-timers taking the plunge with briefs, Day recommends choosing a thicker fabric and sizing up. 'You want a bit of room. It's not about compression.' But his biggest tip is not to make a big deal about them. 'I hate when someone walks out and everyone is like 'Oh he's got budgie smugglers on.' It's like: what year are we living in?'
Yahoo
21 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Fallout Season 2: Everything We Know About the Amazon Megahit's Return
More Fallout is coming. Eventually. More from TVLine Lester Holt Signs Off as NBC Nightly News Anchor - Will You Miss Him? What to Watch in June: Your Guide to 110+ Premieres Across Broadcast, Cable and Streaming Nicole Kidman Is Kay Scarpetta, Jamie Lee Curtis Her Sister in First Look at Patricia Cornwell Thriller Adaptation It has already been more than a year since Season 1 of the Prime Video series, based on the popular video game franchise, exploded onto our screens. But rest assured, there is much more to look forward to, as detailed below. Fallout — which with its freshman run delivered Prime Video's most-watched season globally since Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power — is set 200 years after the apocalypse, where Lucy (played by Ella Purnell), a denizen of a luxury fallout shelter/'vault,' found her peaceful nature tested when she was forced to the toxic (?) surface to locate her father (Twin Peaks' Kyle MacLachlan). Aaron Moten (NeXT) co-stars as Maximus, a young soldier rising in the ranks of the militaristic Brotherhood of Steel, while Walton Goggins (Justified) plays Western star Cooper Howard and his post-apocalyptic persona The Ghoul, a morally fluid bounty hunter. The three parties collided in Season 1 when chasing a researcher (Evil's Michael Emerson) who was in possession of an artifact with the potential to change the power dynamic in this dystopian hellscape. What all do we know about Season 2, and the hit series' future beyond that? Well…. Oh, it was big. Huge, really. Season 1 became one of Prime Video's top three most-watched titles ever, and it set multiple records along the way. In Nielsen's weekly U.S. rankings of streaming originals, Fallout 1) racked up the most minutes viewed for any Prime Video title, 2) became the first series outside of the Netflix platform to rack up 2 billion minutes viewed in consecutive weeks, and 3) was the first Prime Video series to top the Overall Top 10 chart three times in a row. What's more, Nielsen's 'Streaming Unwrapped' report for 2024 crowned Fallout the Top New Original Drama Series after it amassed 11.95 billion minutes streamed last year. Season 1 garnered 16 Emmy nominations, including for Outstanding Drama Series, Lead Actor in a Drama (Walton Goggins), Special Visual Effects, Prosthetic Makeup, and Production Design. (It wound up grabbing Emmy gold once, for Outstanding Music Supervision.) Fallout's many kudos also include three Writers Guild of America Award nominations, Television Critics Association Award nods for Best Drama and Best New Program, and it won at the Art Directors Guild Awards for Excellence in Production Design for a One-Hour Fantasy Single-Camera Series. The new season will 'pick up in the aftermath of Season 1's epic finale and take audiences along for a journey through the wasteland of the Mojave to the post-apocalyptic city of New Vegas,' says Amazon. Said finale saw Lucy process a gut-punch of an epiphany — that her father, Hank, had a hands-on role in bombing Shady Sands — and in turn ally with the Ghoul to, among other things, go find his (meaning, Cooper Howard's) family. 'Will Lucy be able to hang on to her core?' in the wake of that bombshell and not devolve like The Ghoul, co-showrunner Graham Wagner asked in a THR Q&A. 'It's sort of a nature vs. nurture question. Has her time in a happy cozy vault steeled her against that? We will find out. What we're already into in Season 2 is exploring how far we want to push this character, how much do we want to see her hang onto to herself. It becomes the game of the show in its own way.' Goggins, meanwhile, told Deadline in February (see video below) that while he personally thought 'Season 1 was extraordinary,' the second season 'blows it out of the water, what these writers have done and the artisans that have come together to tell this story. It's really gonna be something. I can't wait for people to see it.' Walton Goggins teases #Fallout Season 2 : 'I thought Season 1 was extraordinary… This blows it out of the water' — Deadline (@DEADLINE) February 11, 2025 Returning cast members from Season 1 include, of course, Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets, Sweetpea), Walton Goggins (The White Lotus, The Righteous Gemstones) and Aaron Moten (Emancipation, Father Stu) — as Ella, The Ghoul/Cooper Howard and Maximus — as well as Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks) as Lucy's father Hank, Moisés Arias (The King of Staten Island) as Lucy's kid brother Norm, and Frances Turner (The Boys) as Cooper's wife/high-ranking Vault-Tec exec Barb Howard. The only reported cast addition for Season 2 is Macaulay Culkin in the recurring role of 'a crazy, genius-type character.' Culkin, of course, is best known for playing resourceful tyke Kevin McCallister in the 1990 holiday smash Home Alone and its 1992 sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. As a child actor, he also had memorable roles in My Girl and The Good Son. Culkin returned to acting as an adult, earning acclaim for his work in Party Monster and Saved!, among others. He more recently co-starred in Season 10 of FX's American Horror Story, dubbed Double Feature, and HBO's The Righteous Gemstones. If one looks closely once Season 2 arrives, you might detect that Fallout relocated its base of operations from New York to California (specifically, Santa Clarita aka NCIS-land) after receiving a $25 million tax credit. (Season 1 also filmed in New Jersey, Utah and, for the Wasteland scenes, Kolmanskop, Namibia.) As one result of the move to the West Coast, you might spy 'less gray skies,' co-showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet told THR. 'That was tricky about New York. We were shooting partially in the summer and partially in the middle of winter. And some of those exteriors, the gray skies, they're just not as beautiful.' Would you settle for a release month…? At Prime Video's Upfronts presentation on May 12, cast members Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten and Walton Goggins appeared onstage to announce that Season 2 will premiere this December, in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. That means some 20 months will have elapsed between seasons. TVLine will of course keep you posted on the precise release date for Season 2. In a way, there already is! At Amazon's annual Upfront presentation held May 12, it was also announced that Fallout has already been renewed for a third season. 'The holidays came a little early this year — we are thrilled to be ending the world all over again for a third season of Fallout,' said executive producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. 'On behalf of our brilliant cast and crew, our showrunners Geneva [Robertson-Dworet] and Graham [Wagner], and our partners at Bethesda, we're grateful to our incredible collaborators at Amazon MGM Studios and to the amazing fans as we continue our adventures in the wasteland together.' So, then, maybe the question is: Will there be a Season 4, and maybe more? 'Look, we've talked about three seasons and we've talked about five seasons…,' co-showrunner Graham Wagner told THR. 'Given the success of the show, five is suddenly feeling a little more appealing. But the industry is a temperamental thing and we kind of have to go into each season being like, 'This is our last.' Want scoop on , or for any other TV show? Shoot an email to InsideLine@ and your question may be answered via Matt's Inside Line! Best of TVLine Young Sheldon Easter Eggs: Every Nod to The Big Bang Theory (and Every Future Reveal) Across 7 Seasons Weirdest TV Crossovers: Always Sunny Meets Abbott, Family Guy vs. Simpsons, Nine-Nine Recruits New Girl and More ER Turns 30: See the Original County General Crew, Then and Now
Yahoo
21 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Fallout Season 2: Everything We Know About the Amazon Megahit's Return
More Fallout is coming. Eventually. More from TVLine Lester Holt Signs Off as NBC Nightly News Anchor - Will You Miss Him? What to Watch in June: Your Guide to 110+ Premieres Across Broadcast, Cable and Streaming Nicole Kidman Is Kay Scarpetta, Jamie Lee Curtis Her Sister in First Look at Patricia Cornwell Thriller Adaptation It has already been more than a year since Season 1 of the Prime Video series, based on the popular video game franchise, exploded onto our screens. But rest assured, there is much more to look forward to, as detailed below. Fallout — which with its freshman run delivered Prime Video's most-watched season globally since Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power — is set 200 years after the apocalypse, where Lucy (played by Ella Purnell), a denizen of a luxury fallout shelter/'vault,' found her peaceful nature tested when she was forced to the toxic (?) surface to locate her father (Twin Peaks' Kyle MacLachlan). Aaron Moten (NeXT) co-stars as Maximus, a young soldier rising in the ranks of the militaristic Brotherhood of Steel, while Walton Goggins (Justified) plays Western star Cooper Howard and his post-apocalyptic persona The Ghoul, a morally fluid bounty hunter. The three parties collided in Season 1 when chasing a researcher (Evil's Michael Emerson) who was in possession of an artifact with the potential to change the power dynamic in this dystopian hellscape. What all do we know about Season 2, and the hit series' future beyond that? Well…. Oh, it was big. Huge, really. Season 1 became one of Prime Video's top three most-watched titles ever, and it set multiple records along the way. In Nielsen's weekly U.S. rankings of streaming originals, Fallout 1) racked up the most minutes viewed for any Prime Video title, 2) became the first series outside of the Netflix platform to rack up 2 billion minutes viewed in consecutive weeks, and 3) was the first Prime Video series to top the Overall Top 10 chart three times in a row. What's more, Nielsen's 'Streaming Unwrapped' report for 2024 crowned Fallout the Top New Original Drama Series after it amassed 11.95 billion minutes streamed last year. Season 1 garnered 16 Emmy nominations, including for Outstanding Drama Series, Lead Actor in a Drama (Walton Goggins), Special Visual Effects, Prosthetic Makeup, and Production Design. (It wound up grabbing Emmy gold once, for Outstanding Music Supervision.) Fallout's many kudos also include three Writers Guild of America Award nominations, Television Critics Association Award nods for Best Drama and Best New Program, and it won at the Art Directors Guild Awards for Excellence in Production Design for a One-Hour Fantasy Single-Camera Series. The new season will 'pick up in the aftermath of Season 1's epic finale and take audiences along for a journey through the wasteland of the Mojave to the post-apocalyptic city of New Vegas,' says Amazon. Said finale saw Lucy process a gut-punch of an epiphany — that her father, Hank, had a hands-on role in bombing Shady Sands — and in turn ally with the Ghoul to, among other things, go find his (meaning, Cooper Howard's) family. 'Will Lucy be able to hang on to her core?' in the wake of that bombshell and not devolve like The Ghoul, co-showrunner Graham Wagner asked in a THR Q&A. 'It's sort of a nature vs. nurture question. Has her time in a happy cozy vault steeled her against that? We will find out. What we're already into in Season 2 is exploring how far we want to push this character, how much do we want to see her hang onto to herself. It becomes the game of the show in its own way.' Goggins, meanwhile, told Deadline in February (see video below) that while he personally thought 'Season 1 was extraordinary,' the second season 'blows it out of the water, what these writers have done and the artisans that have come together to tell this story. It's really gonna be something. I can't wait for people to see it.' Walton Goggins teases #Fallout Season 2 : 'I thought Season 1 was extraordinary… This blows it out of the water' — Deadline (@DEADLINE) February 11, 2025 Returning cast members from Season 1 include, of course, Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets, Sweetpea), Walton Goggins (The White Lotus, The Righteous Gemstones) and Aaron Moten (Emancipation, Father Stu) — as Ella, The Ghoul/Cooper Howard and Maximus — as well as Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks) as Lucy's father Hank, Moisés Arias (The King of Staten Island) as Lucy's kid brother Norm, and Frances Turner (The Boys) as Cooper's wife/high-ranking Vault-Tec exec Barb Howard. The only reported cast addition for Season 2 is Macaulay Culkin in the recurring role of 'a crazy, genius-type character.' Culkin, of course, is best known for playing resourceful tyke Kevin McCallister in the 1990 holiday smash Home Alone and its 1992 sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. As a child actor, he also had memorable roles in My Girl and The Good Son. Culkin returned to acting as an adult, earning acclaim for his work in Party Monster and Saved!, among others. He more recently co-starred in Season 10 of FX's American Horror Story, dubbed Double Feature, and HBO's The Righteous Gemstones. If one looks closely once Season 2 arrives, you might detect that Fallout relocated its base of operations from New York to California (specifically, Santa Clarita aka NCIS-land) after receiving a $25 million tax credit. (Season 1 also filmed in New Jersey, Utah and, for the Wasteland scenes, Kolmanskop, Namibia.) As one result of the move to the West Coast, you might spy 'less gray skies,' co-showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet told THR. 'That was tricky about New York. We were shooting partially in the summer and partially in the middle of winter. And some of those exteriors, the gray skies, they're just not as beautiful.' Would you settle for a release month…? At Prime Video's Upfronts presentation on May 12, cast members Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten and Walton Goggins appeared onstage to announce that Season 2 will premiere this December, in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. That means some 20 months will have elapsed between seasons. TVLine will of course keep you posted on the precise release date for Season 2. In a way, there already is! At Amazon's annual Upfront presentation held May 12, it was also announced that Fallout has already been renewed for a third season. 'The holidays came a little early this year — we are thrilled to be ending the world all over again for a third season of Fallout,' said executive producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. 'On behalf of our brilliant cast and crew, our showrunners Geneva [Robertson-Dworet] and Graham [Wagner], and our partners at Bethesda, we're grateful to our incredible collaborators at Amazon MGM Studios and to the amazing fans as we continue our adventures in the wasteland together.' So, then, maybe the question is: Will there be a Season 4, and maybe more? 'Look, we've talked about three seasons and we've talked about five seasons…,' co-showrunner Graham Wagner told THR. 'Given the success of the show, five is suddenly feeling a little more appealing. But the industry is a temperamental thing and we kind of have to go into each season being like, 'This is our last.' Want scoop on , or for any other TV show? Shoot an email to InsideLine@ and your question may be answered via Matt's Inside Line! Best of TVLine Young Sheldon Easter Eggs: Every Nod to The Big Bang Theory (and Every Future Reveal) Across 7 Seasons Weirdest TV Crossovers: Always Sunny Meets Abbott, Family Guy vs. Simpsons, Nine-Nine Recruits New Girl and More ER Turns 30: See the Original County General Crew, Then and Now
The Guardian
2 days ago
- Business
- The Guardian
Rustic no more: let's drink to Sicilian wine
Now that the third season (OK, discourse treadmill) of The White Lotus is sinking into the horizon, and its many fans flock to Thailand in the hope of catching a whiff of Walton Goggins (who I'm in no doubt smells absolutely lovely), I'm grateful that Sicily, the location of season two, might finally be a little less busy. Not least because of its wines. The Guardian's journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. Wine has been made on Sicily for thousands of years, and the island's been colonised by just about every ancient civilisation before the Italians took over in the late 1800s. Mass emigration to the US coupled with the two world wars meant that the local wine industry suffered for much of the 20th century, and it's only been in the past 30 years that it has moved away from an association with bulk cooperative production to prioritising excellence (a story shared with many wine regions internationally). To understand Sicilian wine, you need to get to grips with a handful of native grape varieties that are unique, and vital, to the region. Nero d'avola is the most widely planted red variety, and it produces an inky, dark-fruited wine with suggestions of something herbal such as liquorice and toasted tobacco. Its ready-to-drink iterations are endlessly reliable, but some of the best require time in the bottle. Nerello mascalese and frappato, meanwhile, which I would say are the next two most popular red grape varieties, are sprightly and aromatic in comparison. Often used in blends, they also produce elegant, pretty and perfumed wines in their own right. In terms of whites, cataratto takes the title of the most-planted grape. Of the others, saline and mineral carricante and crisp, savoury grillo are both used to make marsala, the island's famous fortified wine that hails from the coastal town of the same name. There are 22 other DOCs on Sicily, Marsala being probably the most famous, but there is also Faro out east, which is known for its supple, oak-aged reds made from nerello mascalese and nerello cappuccio. Then there's Etna with a terroir defined by millefeuille layers of soil and rock from centuries of volcanic eruptions, which create fertile and mineral-rich wines that brim with tension and excitement. Etna wine, in particular, has become much more coveted in recent years. Why? Because of The White Lotus, of course. 'Apparently, the wine has, like, a bunch of volcanic minerals in it,' swoons Daphne in episode five of season two. 'So, we can get drunk, and then tomorrow our skin and our hair and our nails will be glowing.' Unfortunately, I am contractually obliged to inform you that drinking Sicilian wine is very unlikely to have this effect – you're far more likely to wake up with sallow skin and several missing acrylic nails. Paolini Grillo Bio Terre Siciliane 2022 £12.50 Good Wine Good People, 12%. Vinified in stainless steel, this is all crystalline citrus with a tense, mineral finish. Costadune Mandrarossa Frappato 2024 £12.25 The Wine Society, 13%. A tasty wee frappato that's full of bright raspberry and fizzy lemon. Maremosso Catarratto 2022 £19.20 Parched, 13.5%. A good entry-level orange wine. Dried herbs and preserved lemon. Martinez Marsala Superiore Garibaldi Dolce £9.50 (£9 on mix six) Majestic, 37.5%. A velvety, sweet marsala from one of Sicily's oldest producers.
Daily Mail
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Jason Isaacs reveals fame makes him 'feel empty' as he opens up about the reaction to him 'oversharing' on White Lotus behind-the-scenes drama
Jason Isaacs has revealed that fame makes him 'feel empty' as he opened up about his recent time in the spotlight after starring in The White Lotus. The Harry Potter actor, 61, played troubled family patriarch Tim Ratliff in the series which was filmed in Thailand over an eight-month period. And behind the scenes of the show there were rumoured feuds after Jason spoke in several interviews about the filming time being like 'a cross between summer camp and Lord of the Flies but in a gilded cage'. Leads Aimee Lou Wood and Walton Goggins were thought to have fallen out after they unfollowed each other on social media. Now he has opened up on the reaction to some of his controversial comments and about his life as a famous face in general. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the Daily Mail's new Showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. Speaking on The Table Manners podcast with Jessie and Lennie Ware he explained: 'It's a bit naff being famous. It feels empty. 'And I get embarrassed by the social status you get when you meet people who are genuinely impressive and do extraordinary things. 'But if you can use it sometimes to lighten people's load or do something good, it just feels like it's swinging the pendulum. He then spoke openly about some of the comment he had made about the White Lotus filming which set of various rumours online. Jason said: 'I got in a lot of trouble, because people go, What was it like? And a lot of the other actors, they're very good kind of brand managers. 'They go it was wonderful, Thailand was fabulous etc.. 'It was a bit like Lord of the Flies', I said.' Jessie then said: 'You were quoted as saying it was like Theatre Camp and Lord of the Flies?' Jason added: 'Yeah, because it is a lot of people away from home for a long period of time, away from their families. And it was everything. It was all the things you would expect in a group of people. Jason said: 'I got in a lot of trouble, because people go, What was it like? And a lot of the other actors, they're very good kind of brand managers...' 'Anyway, all these online Sherlock Holmes have read a whole bunch of b****cks into it and started extrapolating from what they thought they could see people's photographs about where the fault lines were in our friendships, or complete bollocks, they've no idea!' Aimee recently playfully took aim at her co-star Jason's 'overshare' about the intense relationships that were formed on the White Lotus set. Jason summed up the shoot as 'a cross between summer camp and Lord of the Flies but in a gilded cage'. Fans had already been speculating about off-screen relationships, specifically Aimee and her on-screen lover Walton - who plays Rick Hatchett. Jason's comments only added fuel to the rumour mill fire, as many surmised that he was referring to the relationship between Aimee Lou and Walton. However Aimee Lou herself made light of Jason's remarks as she reshared a meme to her Instagram Story on Tuesday. Reposting a meme of someone who spills all of their secrets without even being asked where the person had written 'interviewer: so did you enjoy Thailand? Jason Isaacs:....' Aimee Lou shared the X post on her story and tagged Jason in the post alongside a laughing face. The person who had shared Aimee Lou's repost, mused: 'Looks like she's poking fun at the fact Jason Isaac's implied some people fell out and that some shady stuff went down on set: 'There were alliances that formed and broke, romances that formed and broke, friendships that formed and broke...' Aimee Lou, who plays the tragic fan favourite Chelsea, meanwhile has described how the cast 'wrap and walk five steps to your room. You're living where you're filming. It is the Truman Show'. Fans of the show began to speculate that Aimee and Walton had fallen out after they unfollowed each other. However matters seem to have now resolved themselves as they are back following each other again and Aimee recently showed him support on his SNL stint.
