Blake Lively’s ‘It Ends With Us’ drama, orgasm portals and Euphoria news

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Everyone’s talking about ‘It Ends With Us’ atm, huns, as some very bizarre things seem to be going down on the film’s press tour, with rumours of a feud between stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. We get into it all, from the Colleen Hoover book it’s based on, to the allegations of bad behaviour from both Blake and Justin. And what’s with the way it’s being promoted? Also this week, we recommend a fab new show about a woman who travels to parallel universes when she orgasms, Slip. We review ‘Babes’, a pregnancy comedy that was touted as the ‘new Bridesmaids’ (wtf?). And debrief on Hunter Schafer’s Call Her Daddy Interview. Given her Euphoria update, we dissect the recent Hollywood Reporter investigation into what’s really happening with the show and its controversial creator Sam Levinson.

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Reccos/culture discussed:

• Babes (2024)

• Passages (2023)

• Slip, ITVX

• The Instigators, Apple TV

• It Ends with Us (in cinemas now)

• It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover (book)

• Hunter Schafer on Call Her Daddy

• How Hunter Schafer Became ‘A Badass Thriller Bad Bitch’, Rolling Stone

• What’s Ailing ‘Euphoria’? Tragedy and Trauma Inside TV’s Buzziest Show, Hollywood Reporter

• Stealing Girlhood: The Legacy of Women's Work Being Stolen, Final Girl Studios YouTube

• Inside The Cult of the Far Right, The Newsagents

• What Do The Riots Say About Britain? Ash Sarkar, Aaron Bastani and Rivkah Brown Discuss, Novara Media YouTube

• Death of England: The Plays, Soho Place theatre