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(This Is Not a) Happy Room review – Amanda Abbington on the guest list for toxic reunion

A dysfunctional brood gather at a wedding-cum-funeral in actor-writer Rosie Day’s dark comedy

The Guardian - UK

Comic Relief founders Lenny Henry and Richard Curtis named Carnegie honourees

Comic Relief, which celebrates its 40th birthday this year, has raised more than £1.6 billion for charity.

Evening Standard

Ed Sheeran spearheads call for music education funding after ‘decades’ of cuts

He has written to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Government officials calling for immediate, long-term funding for UK music education.

Evening Standard

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Red Nose Day hosts reveal current total stands at £17.5m

Comic Relief was co-founded by Sir Lenny Henry and Love Actually screenwriter Richard Curtis in 1985.

Evening Standard

Comic Relief 2025: release date, sketches, presenters, interviews and everything we know about Red Nose Day

Comic Relief 2025: Get ready for a special night of fun and fundraising as Comic Relief turns 40.

WhatToWatch

Kirstie Allsopp and Ben Andersen's secret wedding: Inside their 21-year love story and surprising nuptials

The property expert married her long-term partner and dad to her two children in a private ceremony last week

Evening Standard

Kirstie Allsopp gets married at famous movie location

Presenter kept the wedding a secret, with guests only finding out days before the event

The Independent UK

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Kirstie Allsopp marries long-term partner Ben Andersen in Love Actually chapel

Allsopp and Andersen have been together for over 20 years and share two sons

Evening Standard

Most romcoms don’t dare ask what women in their 30s really want. We Live In Time does

Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield’s bold new film about a woman who falls in love and then gets an ovarian cancer diagnosis tackles messy questions about motherhood most films won’t touch

The Guardian - UK

‘Watched it about 12 times’: why Notting Hill is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers highlighting their favourite comfort films is a reminder of why Richard Curtis’s west London-set romcom is his greatest

The Guardian - US

Rowan Atkinson at 70: his best films – ranked!

To mark his birthday this week, we celebrate his versatility from bumbling Mr Bean to his punctilious headteacher in The Secret Policeman’s Ball

The Guardian - UK

‘Friends keep me tethered’: actor Joe Alwyn on fame, dating Taylor Swift and keeping his feet on the ground

Joe Alwyn has had an astonishing rise. After his breakthrough with Ang Lee, he wowed in Conversations with Friends and now stars in The Brutalist. Throw in his ex, Taylor Swift, and you have a redhot A-lister ready to go

The Guardian - UK

Best films for kids 2024 –The 5 movies to keep the kids endlessly entertained

The best movies available to stream to keep the kids entertained during the holiday period and beyond

Hugh Grant had a strong reaction to seeing Love Actually for the first time

British actor had mixed feelings about the film when it was first released

The Independent UK

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Richard Curtis has only seen Love Actually twice

It may be a festive staple for many people, but Richard Curtis has only seen ‘Love Actually’ twice since it was released.

Evening Standard

'Say it's carol singers': Love Actually mews house listed to rent for £15,200 a month

The house is on St Luke’s Mews, where Mark (Andrew Lincoln) makes his famous declaration of love to Juliet (Keira Knightley) in Richard Curtis’ film

Evening Standard

OPINION - The bores have won: in 2025 the office Christmas party is dead

What oh what has happened to the office Christmas party this year of our lord, 2025?

The Guardian - UK

Christmas is all around! The great festive film guide 2024

Here are all the best movies to watch this season – from classics It’s a Wonderful Life and Love Actually to Kerry Washington’s rousing war drama The Six Triple Eight and even Godzilla x Kong. Merry flicksmas …

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Ben Elton: ‘I fancied Olivia Newton-John. It’s all right to say that about a third cousin, right?’

The standup talks about tensions behind the scenes of Blackadder, his Wiggles movie that never happened and his opinions on hecklers

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Ed Sheeran 'getting back into big pop'

Ed Sheeran has finished work on his next album and teased he has made a return to "big pop".

The Guardian - UK

‘It is quite creepy’: Keira Knightley flagged ‘stalkerish’ aspects while shooting Love Actually

The actor has commented on the ‘creep factor’ of the cue cards scene in Richard Curtis’s festive romance film, in which she featured as a 17-year-old

The Independent UK

Love Actually director says famous cue card scene could have been very different

Iconic scene, ‘stolen from a Bob Dylan video’, has been parodied countless times since the film’s release in 2003

Tom’s Guide

Netflix's new Christmas movie just hit the top 10 list — but you should stream these 3 instead

"That Christmas" is proving to be a popular Netflix Christmas movie, but we believe there are better holiday movies to be found on the streaming service.

Evening Standard

Richard Curtis reflects on 'posh' Hugh Grant casting doubts

Grant has worked with Curtis on films including Four Weddings And A Funeral, Notting Hill, and Love Actually

The Independent UK

Fiona Shaw: ‘People were being shot out of cannons by the British – why aren’t we telling that story?’

INTERVIEW: The Irish powerhouse is voicing the headteacher with a heart of gold in Richard Curtis’s new animation ‘That Christmas’. She sits down with Helen Coffey to talk falling in and out of love with acting, the joys of hitting her sixties – and why she’s not quite full of…

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