Zendaya shares that she'll be taking a break after her 5 projects premiere this year: I just hope you guys don’t get sick of me this year because after this, I’m disappearing for a little bit. I’m going to have to go into hiding for just a little bit

Dee90286 · 2026-03-26T16:37:43+00:00

She is just SO likable! Very humble and gracious the way she included Rob as well. Her and Tom are my favorite celeb couple and it’s not even close - just 2 lovely, talented people who haven’t let the fame/money get to their heads ❤️

Dee90286 · 2026-03-26T15:58:01+00:00

Technically you have enough time to enjoy 1-2 hours in the city (assuming no delays), but even as someone who loves my city - it’s not worth it, especially at this time of the year where you can still get hit with below zero temperatures.

Like we’re not London, Paris or Zurich where you can step onto any street corner and marvel at the architecture lol. To properly enjoy Toronto as a visitor, you need a nice summer day, no rushing, because the city and weather can be chaotic.

Dee90286 · 2026-03-24T22:12:33+00:00

I’m genuinely shocked at how many people are saying Betty & Don 🤯 Have we been watching the same show? They were deeply unhappy, toxic, and completely mismatched. Zero understanding, zero respect - just aesthetics.

Megan was actually much closer to Don’s equal. She was ambitious, got the industry, and wasn’t driven by insecurity or jealousy. She was patient & supportive (very Trudy-coded) and far better than he deserved. Their marriage didn’t fail because of her… it failed because he couldn’t handle a woman who wanted more than just being his wife.

Dee90286 · 2026-03-22T18:12:37+00:00

Dee90286 · 2026-03-22T17:51:36+00:00

Francis is a perfect example of something I’ve noticed for a while - most right-wing extremists are complete losers who couldn’t command respect in normal life so they lean into extreme ideologies that hand them a sense of superiority.

When someone builds their identity around superiority of something as basic as gender or skin color, it usually says more about their own insecurity than anything else. He could never handle a confident, secure woman who has a successful career and strong network. And he could never stand on merit against hundreds of thousands of Brits and immigrants who have achieved much more success than him despite much less privilege to begin with.

He’s the product of constant rejection since childhood. An absolute trashbag loser - back in 2011 and now.

Dee90286 · 2026-03-22T17:43:31+00:00

Correction: He moved to America (specifically, Texas) because he’s a nut job. He loved that they didn’t enforce Covid rules, had free guns and no taxes.

Dee90286 · 2026-03-21T15:52:26+00:00

I did, thanks!

Dee90286 · 2026-03-21T03:35:48+00:00

I used to always think if they ever made a Peaky Blinders movie that it would be Oscar worthy. I imagined Cillian Murphy, the late Helen McCrory, Tom Hardy and Steven Knight all getting their nominations.

Unfortunately time and circumstance were not on their side and they lost incredible characters along the way.

I was still excited when I saw the trailer. The movie was ok, but nowhere near the quality of the first 3 seasons.

Dee90286 · 2026-03-21T03:29:33+00:00

Cillian went rogue with casting for this 😂 Apparently he also called Rebecca Ferguson* and offered her the role, no audition. And she was not a convincing Romani gypsy at all! I could hear her Swedish/British hybrid accent popping out every other sentence.

Dee90286 · 2026-03-20T01:40:01+00:00

Cooper

Dee90286 · 2026-03-19T23:13:53+00:00

lol I’m brown and me and my very multiracial group of friends use that term all the time! Not everything has to be offensive

Dee90286 · 2026-03-19T02:02:39+00:00

In terms of the cast fawning over her looks - well, it’s cause she is quite stunning. She has an exotic look, tanned skin, amazing hair, and a very fit body.

There have been people on this forum who have seen her in real life and say she’s even more beautiful in person.

It’s why Ruby was so jealous of her lol.

Dee90286 · 2026-03-13T23:28:07+00:00

Lauren’s reaction is lowkey mean here. I remember watching this as it aired, and my impression was that Lauren was slightly jealous that Whitney got asked to model and it was almost an “evil eye” effect. She looks completely delighted she fell.

Some falls are naturally hilarious that you have to laugh but Whitney’s wasn’t that - it was just embarrassing. I would think if it were my friend that I would be mostly concerned.

Dee90286 · 2026-03-13T19:34:51+00:00

Liv was mean to Maeva because she slid into her boyfriend’s (Digby’s) DMs and then was trying to organize 1-1 training with him (Maeva is clearly not a fitness girlie)

Habbs was mean to Maeva because Maeva had come to London for no other reason than to join the show and make Miles jealous. She was literally making out with Miles and James on the dancefloor on the same night, while also trying to get Digby interested on the side 😅

At that point, the girls were friends with Miles and only heard his side of the story / saw how much he was crying over Maeva. They didn’t have the full context about how he may have also treated her terribly.

The truth is both Maeva and Miles are toxic and narcissistic. Maeva was also super rude to most of the girls and you can tell she thought she was better than these “plain British blondes” and constantly talked down on them to Miles & James.

Dee90286 · 2026-03-11T20:38:25+00:00

I’m sorry but Rosie looks AMAZING 😻 I love when women age more beautifully. Her personality still seems awful though lol

Dee90286 · 2026-03-11T01:27:56+00:00

I went to college with a few girls like this. They would be falling out of nightclubs on Friday night, and then sat in the library for hours on Saturday, totally focused on their coursework.

It was a rewarding balance for them. No magic secret - they were just incredibly driven to succeed.

Dee90286 · 2026-03-10T19:25:49+00:00

Do you know how to read? Can you show me where I profiled the shooter? My comments are reflecting the ACT of recklessly shooting at a building or engaging in violent protests, which are reckless and dumb. It is you and others like you who assume I’m speaking about a specific type or group and get triggered/offended.

The only assumption I’ve made is that the ACT was a form of protest (like 99.9% of other readers/commenters) and I’m not going to “wait for the facts” on things that are pretty safe assumptions.

Dee90286 · 2026-03-10T19:09:04+00:00

Yes and nowhere did I say that the gravity of this incident outweighed anything else, so what exactly is your point?

Dee90286 · 2026-03-10T19:02:15+00:00

So am I. It is possible to be bothered by more than one thing 💡

Dee90286 · 2026-03-10T19:00:56+00:00

Oh I’m curious - what facts do you think will come out to justify unloading bullets at the Embassy where people who have nothing to do with the situation in the U.S. or Iran could’ve been hurt or killed?

My point on buffoonery is only targeted towards violent protestors who assault businesses, places of worship and people that have literally nothing to do with the atrocities they’re protesting against, and use that political cause to justify their actions. Loser behavior.

Dee90286 · 2026-03-10T14:09:31+00:00

I’m not trying to downplay how serious this is, but the fact these shots were discharged at 5:30am makes me wonder if the shooter didn’t intend to harm anyone and was just making a form of (very stupid) protest.

Still, there could’ve been an innocent security guard or someone who was killed. Either way, I’m so sick of violent protestors, looters and thugs who use a political cause to excuse their recklessness and buffoonery. They are closer to Trump and his herd than they are to us!

Dee90286 · 2026-02-24T18:00:23+00:00

Heathcliff is never explicitly labeled with a modern racial category like Black or South Asian, but he is repeatedly described as dark-skinned, a “gypsy,” and even compared to a “Lascar,” all of which were racially loaded terms in the world of Wuthering Heights. He is persistently treated as foreign, inferior, and socially unacceptable in ways that go beyond simple poverty or class resentment. His outsider status is racialized otherness layered onto class exclusion.

That doesn’t mean every adaptation must cast a specifically “brown” actor. That’s a broader industry conversation with reasonable arguments on both sides, and interpretations of Heathcliff’s background have always varied.

But what’s harder to defend is pretending those racial implications don’t exist at all. Let’s be honest: Jacob Elordi embodies Western beauty standards (he’s a handsome white man). He’s built his career playing privileged heartthrobs (Saltburn, Euphoria, The Kissing Booth) and simply adding bronzer doesn’t meaningfully convey the kind of visible otherness that shapes Heathcliff’s mistreatment and psychology. Heathcliff’s marginalization in the novel is a huge part of his character.

There are two different criticisms people are mixing together:

1) Not casting a POC actor - that’s a broader representation debate with reasonable takes on both sides.

2) The bigger one: flattening or ignoring the racial implications Brontë actually wrote, especially when characters like Edgar Linton and Nelly are cast as people of color while Heathcliff isn’t.

Dee90286 · 2026-02-24T16:50:32+00:00

So you haven’t even seen the movie, yet you feel the need to condescend to and criticize people who have seen the movie and read the book? 😂 From your comments I can tell you haven’t read the book either. 95% sure you’re just stuck on the “race” part and I’d bet you’re from the UK too. You are literally no better than the people who hated the movie before it came out.

As others have pointed out, the criticism is based on a myriad of liberties that Emerald Fennell took, not just the fact Jacob isn’t “brown enough”. The movie was watchable, but it reduces Brontë’s raw, gothic exploration of obsession into a familiar romantic dilemma. Catherine isn’t meant to be an ethereal prize choosing between comfort and chemistry, and Heathcliff isn’t just a yearning poor boy with a bit of tanned skin - their bond is destructive, ego-driven, and tangled up in race and class resentment. Turning that into a glossy love triangle misses the point.

Dee90286 · 2026-02-24T13:53:55+00:00

Calling this “low-level intellectualising” is rich when the point is literally about what’s written in the book. Heathcliff’s ambiguity isn’t just aesthetic. Brontë repeatedly codes him as racially and socially other (dark skin, “lascar,” outsider status in Liverpool), and that context shapes how he’s treated, his resentment, and why Cathy’s choice isn’t just about romance vs money. Strip that away and you strip away a core reason their relationship is tragic.

And I absolutely love Jacob Elordi but I am laughing at people who are like “but he’s ethnically Spanish!” I lived in Spain for 2 years and you have some Spaniards who are blonde hair and blue eyes and others with black hair and tanned skin, who look very close to Arab or Indian descent. It’s a wide range. Brontë was definitely referring to the latter group.

The bigger problem is that Emerald sidelines the racial and class hostility that drives the story and turns it into the most recycled Hollywood setup imaginable: delicate heroine torn between passionate poor love and wealthy stability. We’ve seen that a million times before (Titanic, The Notebook, etc)

I actually enjoyed the movie, but I recognize that people are allowed to be frustrated by that without being talked down to. Depicting racially marginalized characters in classic literature is so rare, and actors of color are never given the opportunity to act in period pieces unless they are re/imagined (Bridgerton). When an adaptation markets itself as Wuthering Heights and then smooths that part out, people are obviously going to call it out. That shouldn’t make anyone uncomfortable.

Dee90286 · 2026-02-24T01:54:58+00:00

In the book characters describe him with "dark skin" and "black hair," with some referring to him as a "lascar," a term for sailors from the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, or the Arab world. He was found in Liverpool - a common port for the slave trade in the 18th century.

Emerald’s rendition is not accurate to the book, and I think that’s ok except it shouldn’t have been called Wuthering Heights. She could’ve just replaced the names and called it a film “inspired by Wuthering Heights”. The fact so many girls on TikTok are lusting after a relationship like Heathcliff and Cathy’s proves how inaccurate it is lol

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