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The Independent Pride List 2026: Why Queen Elizabeth II and Dame Edna Everage shaped Tiara Skye’s identity

British South African drag star and trans woman Tiara Skye says two unlikely icons have helped shape her sense of identity and performance — Queen Elizabeth II and Dame Edna Everage.

The Independent UK

Scratchy Lions win has simplified the Test selection equation for Andy Farrell

The time has come for the head coach to cease experimenting and get down to business as the Lions need to go all out or go home

The Guardian - UK

Kylie's hotpants among new museum's national treasures

Performance memorabilia from some of Australia's biggest stars will have a new home at The Australian Museum of Performing Arts, set to open in December.

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Pair of Barry Humphries’ Dame Edna Everage glasses auctioned for £37,800

His personal collection totalled £4,627,224 at auction, according to Christie’s auction house.

The Independent UK

Dame Edna Everage spectacles among items in Barry Humphries auction

Christie’s will auction Barry Humphries: The Personal Collection in London on February 13 next year.

The Independent UK

Lynne Kirwin obituary

Other lives: Theatre publicist who worked on productions at the National, the Young Vic and the Donmar in the 1980s, 90s and 00s

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: The Gatekeepers; Million Dollar Lover; Radical Empathy and the Devil; Barry Humphries: Gloriously Uncut – review

How social media companies have become the new information gatekeepers; a gripping real-life love affair – or is it?; a psychiatrist reflects on her work with violent offenders; and remembering the late, great Steve Wright

The Guardian - UK

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Barry Humphries remembered by Melvyn Bragg

The broadcaster recalls a true original who immersed himself in the roles of Dame Edna and Sir Les, and was a complicated mixture of vaudeville character and private intellectual

The Guardian - UK

King Charles leads tributes to Barry Humphries at state service at Sydney Opera House

Charles said he has been ‘deeply saddened’ by the entertainer's death

Evening Standard

Barry Humphries remembered as an ‘interstellar’ talent at Sydney Opera House memorial service

‘He loved to torment his audiences but it was from a place of love’, his son Rupert said of his father

The Guardian - AU

King Charles pays light-hearted tribute to comedian Barry Humphries at Sydney memorial service

King Charles III has paid a light-hearted tribute to the late Barry Humphries, who was remembered at a state memorial service in Australia

The Independent UK

Kingly tributes hail comedic legend of Barry Humphries

Life won't be the same without Barry Humphries, King Charles has said in a message at an Opera House memorial service for the hugely popular actor and comedian.

AAP

Mrs Brown’s Boys to pay tribute to two drag legends in new series

Brendan O’Carroll’s comedy series returns this September

The Independent UK

TV Tonight: Our highlights for Sunday, May 7

The Coronation Concert is just one of the gems on TV tonight.

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The New Daily

The night I cooked schnitty for Barry Humphries

Why, as a raw beginner aged just 12, was I cooking for superstar Barry Humphries? The context of the night goes thus.

Bangkok Post

Poster boys and girls near final straight

Try as you might you just cannot escape the forthcoming election with all those posters dangling from lampposts and the few remaining trees. The posters have been there for several months now and some are beginning to look a little the worse for wear, especially after this week's welcome rain…

Daily Mirror

Dame Edna star Barry Humphries 'secretly battled inoperable cancer for years before death'

Dame Edna star Barry Humphries revealed he had surgery for cancer in 2021, but it's emerged he was still battling the disease when he died on April 22

The Week

Barry Humphries obituary: cerebral satirist who created Dame Edna Everage

During an appearance on Desert Island Discs in 2009, Barry Humphries declared that he would be happy if his obituaries made no mention of Dame Edna Everage, the monstrous Melbourne housewife he had created half-a-century earlier. Some hope, said The Times. True, Dame Edna wasn’t his only alter ego: there was also…

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Evening Standard

OPINION - Hilary Mantel showed us how real talent can cut through personal hell

I went to Hilary Mantel’s memorial service at Southwark Cathedral last week. Sir Mark Rylance and Ben Miles, who both played her hero Thomas Cromwell, did readings and there were memories from her friends and family. Two things emerged: Mantel the feminist and Mantel the muse. They are the same…

ABC News

Melbourne International Comedy Festival considering how to pay tribute to Barry Humphries

The Melbourne International Comedy Festival director says it is considering an appropriate tribute for Barry Humphries as the event's director hits back at claims it "cancelled" the late comic.

ABC News

Barry Humphries, legend of stage and screen, blazed a trail in the entertainment industry

With the passing of Barry Humphries, the entertainment industry loses a man who blazed a trail for others, defined a genre and changed the face of comedy.

The Guardian - UK

Goodnight possum! Tributes to Dame Edna creator Barry Humphries

World mourns ‘unique wit’ of Australian star and inventor of vivid stage personas, who has died aged 89

The Independent UK

What the papers say – April 23

Many of Sunday’s front pages mark the death of Barry Humphries with images of Dame Edna Everage.

Chicago Sun-Times

Oh no, Possums! Dame Edna creator Barry Humphries dies at 89

His death in a Sydney hospital, where he spent several days with complications following hip surgery, was confirmed by his family.

The New Daily

‘Galaxy of personas’: PM leads tributes for Barry Humphries

The death of Australian entertainer Barry Humphries has sparked an outpouring of tributes for the treasured national icon at home and around the globe.

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