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Time of India
11 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
‘Stranger Things' season 5 teaser release date out as 'last adventure begins', new poster makes stunning debut
Stranger Things fans heaved a sigh of relief after the announcement that the first teaser for the final season of the long-running Netflix series would premiere tomorrow. 'One last adventure begins. Teaser tomorrow,' the Stranger Things official X account wrote on July 15. The new poster for Stranger Things 5 was also shared with the post and it featured a slick callback to seasons past. In the image, Will (Noah Schnapp), Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin), and Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) pedal their bikes through the eerie landscape of Hawkins, Indiana. Above them, ominous red clouds swirl as Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower), the chilling villain from Stranger Things Season 4, looms threateningly overhead. — Stranger_Things (@Stranger_Things) The wait is finally over for Stranger Things fans as they have been waiting for years to watch the epic conclusion of the popular Netflix show. Season 4 premiered in the summer of 2022, and left viewers on quite the cliffhanger. Max (Sadie Sink) had been attacked by Vecna and left in a coma with some pretty gnarly injuries. While Nancy (Natalia Dyer), Steve (Joe Keery) and Robin (Maya Hawke) thought they shot and killed the big bad, after exiting the Creel house, his body was nowhere to be found. In the ending shot of the season, the group looked out over Hawkins as the Upside Down began to creep into more of the real world, hinting that things were about to get a lot worse. Live Events Stranger Things Season 5 release date Stranger Things 5 will release this fall: four episodes on Nov. 26, three episodes on Christmas, and the finale episode on New Year's Eve. Each volume releases at 5:00 p.m. PST. Stranger Things wrapped production on its fifth and final season, as confirmed in December 2024. Showrunners and creators Matt and Ross Duffer (known as The Duffer Brothers ) wrote in a Netflix blog (via The Hollywood Reporter), "Seven years ago, we planned out the complete story arc for Stranger Things. At the time, we predicted the story would last four to five seasons. It proved too large to tell in four, but—as you'll soon see for yourselves—we are now hurtling toward our finale. Season 4 will be the penultimate season; Season 5 will be the last." Stranger Things Season 5 will release its eight episodes in three separate batches. The first will air on Wednesday, Nov. 26, the day before Thanksgiving. The second part comes Christmas Day, Thursday, Dec. 25. And the third and final batch arrives New Years' Ever, Wednesday, Dec. 31.
GMA Network
16 hours ago
- Entertainment
- GMA Network
Will Ashley, Bianca De Vera tease each other in kilig online exchange
Will Ashley and Bianca De Vera have a kilig ayuda for their fans on Tuesday! The Sparkle actor first posted a video on Monday, which showed him telling Bianca about a question posted to her online. It was a fan asking Bianca about the full tank for Will's car that she promised when they were still "Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Collab Edition" housemates. She made the promise in exchange for Will getting her donuts. Bianca said she'll get it for him later, and said she can even do it every day if Will does not get his success get to his head. Will vowed that he will never change, but he suddenly realized what Bianca said about the full tank every day. "Uy araw-araw narinig n'yo 'yun ah?" he said to the camera, prompting Bianca to say "uy hindi, joke lang!" Sabi ko na nga ba eh, taping friend pa din ????tigil na yan!! — Will Ashley (@WillAshley05) July 15, 2025 Will captioned the video with a laugh-cry emoji. Bianca reposted the video and quipped, "OK taping friend," referencing one of their conversations inside the PBB house. "Sabi ko na nga ba eh, taping friend pa din tigil na 'yan!" Will responded. The words "OK taping friend" quickly made it to the top of the Philippine trends for X following Bianca's comment as fans gushed over the cute exchange. Will and Bianca's tandem, which has been dubbed WillCa, is one of the popular fan ships formed in the PBB collab. The two stars previously worked together in "Unbreak My Heart," another collaboration between GMA Network and ABS-CBN. They reunited inside Bahay ni Kuya, where they both confessed to having unresolved tension from their "Unbreak My Heart" days. Will called them "taping friends," but Bianca said they were not. During the PBB Big Night, they became viral after hugging on stage. Their first TikTok together since coming out of the house have fetched over 16 million views. They recently attended a fund-raising gig in support of animal welfare organized by their fans and attended by OPM artists, some of whom have dedicated their songs to WillCa. —MGP, GMA Integrated News
Daily Mail
16 hours ago
- Health
- Daily Mail
New trial promises that millions with dangerous food allergy no longer have to fear eating out
Since childhood, Charlotte Campbell has felt unwell after eating peanuts, but it was only after a scary incident at a wedding aged 21 that she was diagnosed with a peanut allergy. 'After eating a fried risotto ball at the reception I started getting a very itchy mouth, blocked sinuses and hives – then, within 30 minutes, it developed into nausea and vomiting,' recalls Charlotte, a marketing manager who lives with her husband Will, 33, a teacher, in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. 'I'd never experienced anything like it,' she says. 'As a child, I occasionally ate peanut butter or the odd thing containing peanuts, which made me feel sick and gave me a slightly itchy mouth. But I never suspected an allergy.' Thankfully her sister, who had a diagnosed nut allergy, was also at the wedding and gave Charlotte antihistamines, which worked quickly. A few weeks later Charlotte was referred for skin-prick tests, where a tiny amount of an allergen is placed on the skin, to look for any reaction. Charlotte was tested for all common food allergies. When her arm became red and the skin raised in response to peanut, only improving after a couple of days, the diagnosis was confirmed. Around 6 per cent of the UK adult population – around 2.4 million people – have a confirmed food allergy. In general, they are just told to avoid eating what they're allergic to; there is no treatment. 'It made me anxious around food, especially when eating at other people's houses and at restaurants,' says Charlotte, now 32. 'I had a couple of incidents when I ate things I thought were safe, such as a flapjack, and I quickly developed symptoms which eased off with antihistamines.' Yet Charlotte can now safely eat a small amount of peanuts thanks to a groundbreaking clinical trial, using an approach known as oral immunotherapy. This is where patients are gradually given tiny but increasing amounts of the food they're allergic to, in a safe environment with medics on hand, in a bid to train their bodies not to react. While an oral immunotherapy treatment has been approved for children, there isn't an equivalent available for adults because of a concern that their immune systems are less adaptable than children's. They also tend to have more severe reactions (it's not clear why). But now, for the first time, this method has been shown to be effective in adults. In a study, led by King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, participants received a tiny dose of peanut in hospital and were monitored for a reaction, before being sent home and instructed to take that same peanut dose daily for two weeks. The process was then repeated, increasing the dose in small increments, over around four months. The study found that 67 per cent of the 21 participants were able to consume at least 1.4g peanut protein – the equivalent of five peanuts – after a minimum of four months without reacting, reported the journal Allergy in April. 'If you can repeatedly expose the allergic patient to the things they're allergic to, you can desensitise them and eventually make them less reactive,' explains Professor Stephen Till, a consultant allergist at Guy's and St Thomas' and chief investigator of the trial, which was funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research. 'The challenge is giving someone something they're allergic to without causing a reaction, which is why we do this in a controlled medical environment.' When someone consumes a substance to which they're allergic, their immune system produces immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies. These attach to the allergen, and activate immune cells to attack it, triggering the release of histamine. Histamine causes symptoms such as itching, swelling, redness, difficulty breathing, sickness, diarrhoea and low blood pressure. But oral immunotherapy is thought to make the body produce a different antibody, immunoglobulin G (IgG). 'We think IgG soaks up the allergen and stops it binding to IgE,' explains Professor Till. After the treatment is over and desensitisation is established, patients are advised to stick to having their safe number of peanuts each day to maintain the benefits. 'We've shown that desensitisation works, and that patients will remain desensitised if they carry on eating peanuts every day – but we need more studies to know if they would continue to be desensitised if they stopped,' says Professor Till. 'Before this, all adults with an allergy could do was be very careful to avoid peanuts. 'Now there's hope that there could be a treatment to control the way that the immune system responds. Participants don't need to worry if there is cross-contamination in their food from peanuts in a restaurant, for example.' However, oral immunotherapy is time-intensive, which makes NHS provision and funding difficult. For this reason, 'it's important that we work out how to deliver immunotherapy predominantly at home or outside hospitals', says Professor Till. Another new tool is with treatments known as biologics, such as omalizumab, which stop IgE antibodies binding to immune cells. These could be used alongside oral immunotherapy and help people to tolerate higher doses of their allergen more quickly, explains Professor Till. Other experts believe biologic drugs could be a standalone food-allergy treatment. In a US study published in the New England Journal of Medicine last year, children under 18 with peanut allergy were given injections of omalizumab or a placebo every two to four weeks for 16 weeks. At the end of the trial 67 per cent of participants who'd received omalizumab could tolerate 600mg of peanut protein, compared with 7 per cent in the placebo group. 'While this is an important study, if you're mopping up the IgE, you'd expect 100 per cent efficacy,' says Mohamed Shamji, a professor in immunology and allergy at Imperial College London. 'We're trying to find out why it doesn't work for everyone.' Even so, he believes the drugs should be considered for food allergies; currently they're not approved for this on the NHS (partly because they are expensive), though they are in the US. Another promising development is using virus-like particles (VLPs) to essentially create a peanut allergy vaccine. VLPs are designed to look like a virus, so activate the immune response, but do not cause illness. Researchers at Imperial College London attached a VLP to peanut allergen protein Ara h2, to help the immune system recognise and respond to the peanut allergen in a controlled way. An early-stage clinical trial, published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in January this year, found the vaccine caused no adverse reactions. Further trials are planned. 'The aim of the vaccine is to reset the immune response, so it becomes more of a healthy, non-allergic one,' explains Professor Shamji, a senior author of the study. There is a great need for new treatments, says Clare Mills, a professor of food and molecular immunology at the University of Surrey: 'If someone is allergic to peanut, then just a few milligrams of it, equivalent to a speck of dust, can provoke a potentially fatal reaction.' Meanwhile, the Natasha Allergy Research Foundation, the UK's food allergy charity, is funding an oral immunotherapy trial using everyday, shop-bought foods as a treatment for young people aged three to 23 with peanut and cow's milk allergies, across nine NHS centres in England and Scotland. As Tanya Ednan-Laperouse, the charity's founder, explains: 'We know that some individuals on the trial have had a very positive response. We hope our findings [due next year] will show oral immunotherapy using everyday foods is not only effective but cost-effective, and will lead to it being adopted as a treatment for food allergies on the NHS.' A year after the 2019 trial Charlotte took part in, she was able to eat up to four peanuts a day. But after a bad reaction last summer has dropped down to three, though hopes to go back to four soon. 'It's made me a lot less fearful of foods, especially when eating out,' says Charlotte. 'Everything feels much easier now.'
GMA Network
21 hours ago
- Entertainment
- GMA Network
Will Ashley reaches more than 3M followers on TikTok
Article Inside Page Will Ashley celebrates a new milestone! Will Ashley, an actor and now well-known as one of Pinoy Big Brother Celebrity Collab Edition's Big Four recently achieved another social media milestone. Will seems to have been building a considerable following on TikTok. The Sparkle star currently has 3.1 million followers. Sparkle GMA Artist Center celebrated Will's milestone by thanking his fans and followers for the support through a Facebook post. Before this, he celebrated his achievement of being an Instagram millionaire. Meanwhile, Will is the Second Big Winner of GMA and ABS-CBN's collaboration along with Star Magic artist Ralph De Leon. During his stay in the Big Brother's House, the Kapuso actor has been tagged as Mama's Dreambae of Cavite and Nation's Favorite Son. RELATED GALLERY: Will Ashley makes casual looks extra charming
The National
a day ago
- General
- The National
I spent the weekend beach-cleaning in Dumfries and Galloway
I'm spending the weekend beach-cleaning with People Against Plastic Pollution (PAPP), a small charity set up in 2021 after its founder Will Thorpe – an environmental consultant from Devon – visited the Western Isles and was dismayed to find beaches there strewn with rubbish. Glance at the beach at Port William in Dumfries and Galloway and you would have no idea of the scale of plastic pollution on it, and within it. READ MORE: 'Collective action' against Israel to be decided at global conference But take a closer look and you will find plastic almost everywhere – embedded into the soil, trapped between stones, forming habitats for wildlife including slow worms, voles and ants. They are living under fishing crates and giant drums, but we're here to clear as much plastic as we possibly can from this hard-to-reach part of the coastline before it becomes too brittle to deal with at all. The creatures scamper and slither away to find alternative refuge in the thick vegetation. At last summer's clean-up there were a dozen volunteers, but this year it turns out to be just Will and his determined colleague (also called Will), until my arrival boosts the squad by 50%. I'm here on Saturday under my own steam and on Sunday using volunteering leave offered by The National's publisher, Newsquest. Assisting two Englishmen to clean up a Scottish beach certainly seems to fit with the goal of delivering a positive impact on the local community. We may be small in number, but we have the resolve of a much bigger team. Many hands make light work, but so does a brand-new 518cc quad bike loaned to the group by Honda UK, which we use to repeatedly tow a trailer piled high with hundreds of kilogrammes of plastic. Last year the group had to drag everything they collected along the beach, but we're able to load up a trailer, tow it up the road and hurl it into a huge skip provided by Dumfries and Galloway Council. Not until we have weighed it, though – the charity pledges to collect 2kg for every £1 donated, so we keep track of every load and set ourselves ever-increasing targets. We spend hours hauling huge trays and barrels we've stuffed full of boxes, bottles, fishing rope and much more, and what starts out feeling like a losing battle becomes more satisfying with every weigh-in. The clean-up is enlivened by the discovery of some 'treasure', including a doll's head with no eyes, a message in a bottle (about how to find Jesus) and a cheerful yellow duck printed with 'World Record Duck Race – Ireland 2006'. READ MORE: Seven charged in connection with hate crime at St Mirren match Some investigation reveals that this was one of a number of escapees from that fundraising event, set loose from the River Liffey by some mischievous children. It clearly wasn't the strongest swimmer of the raft, as others reached Sweden and Holland. On day two I remark that it was interesting to find so many bottles with liquid in them and the lids screwed shut. 'Have you ever seen the inside of a fishing boat?' asked Will T. 'They're probably all full of pee'. I pause to contemplate the fact that he had neglected to mention this to me 24 hours earlier, when I was diligently emptying out the contents of these sealed bottles to ensure we were weighing only the plastic, not liquid too. Undeterred, however, I keep doing so, reasoning that human pee was probably less of a threat to my health than the near-infinite number of microplastics to which each of us is exposed daily. So every kilogramme of our grand total of 1.4 tonnes was plastic. Returning to my desk, it felt serendipitous to find an email from Yes West Lothian about its community litter pick this coming Saturday (starting at 10am at The Lanthorn, Dedridge). Imagine the impact if every Yes group in Scotland did the same, for just one day this summer – a win-win for the environment and the cause. I'm already looking forward to next summer's PAPP mission. If you're averse to rodents, spiders, legless lizards and/or handling urine, then this might not be the activity for you. But really the most disturbing thing is getting a glimpse of how much plastic, in various states of degradation, is in our oceans, on our beaches and in our environment – to witness how solid objects break down into tiny fragments too small to collect or contain. Microplastics are being found in rapidly increasing concentrations in human bodies, including in the liver, kidney and especially the brain. It really is a race against time to remove what's there, while taking action to prevent more being added. I certainly won't look at a single-use plastic bottle the same way again.
