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Venice Film Festival 2026: all the best celebrity fashion so far
Harper’s Bazaar is keeping a running gallery of every look on the Lido as the premieres continue through the week.
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The Folio · No. 2Sunday 6 September 2026Jess Entwistle
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The most breathtaking jewellery on the Venice red carpet
Vogue picks out the Tiffany, Chopard and Swarovski on the Lido this week, and concedes that George Clooney’s charisma is still hard to compete with.
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Robert Pattinson and Suki Waterhouse wear Dior and Saint Laurent to the Venice red carpet
The British couple went in contrasting directions on the same carpet, he in Dior and she in Saint Laurent, ahead of the premiere of his film Primetime.
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La La Land turns ten and Venice throws it a party
Damien Chazelle’s Oscar-winning musical got a starry anniversary celebration on the Lido, with Amal Clooney, Orlando Bloom and Kate Mara among the guests.
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Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger review, a mammoth tour film with the joy and poignancy of the reunion
The Guardian says the comeback concerts get the full fan-worship treatment, and that it is impossible to begrudge them the euphoria they created.
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Primetime review: Robert Pattinson is excellent in a twisted but superficial thriller
Pattinson plays the American presenter Chris Hansen in Lance Oppenheim’s first fiction feature. Radio Times says the film does not quite know what it wants to be.
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Elsinore and The Liberation launch Andrew Scott and Carrie Coon into the Oscar race
Telluride’s opening day brought two world premieres, and IndieWire’s awards desk now has Andrew Scott and Carrie Coon in the running on the strength of them.
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Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show, the Muppets and The Traitors win night one of the Creative Arts Emmys
The first of two ceremonies ran on Saturday at the Peacock Theater, with the halftime show taking seven awards and The Traitors six. Wanda Sykes gave the opening remarks.
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Mariska Hargitay wins two Emmys for My Mom Jayne and thanks Gloria Steinem from the stage
Hargitay, who will host the televised Primetime Emmys, won twice for her HBO documentary about her mother Jayne Mansfield.
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Richard Osman appears to confirm The Celebrity Traitors returns to BBC this month
Osman let the date slip on stage at a live Rest Is Entertainment recording in London. Deadline reports that filming the second series was described as intense.
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The Gentlemen season two: the cinematographer on anamorphic lenses and a darker Guy Ritchie world
Stephen Murphy explains how he and director Eran Creevy gave the new series a Tony Scott look. It arrived on Netflix this week as part of a large September drop.
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Michelle Keegan’s new ITV drama The Blame is being compared to Happy Valley by its producer
The producer told Radio Times the series is complex in the same way, which is a large claim to make before anyone has seen it.
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Antiques Roadshow wins its first Emmy at the 24th attempt
The series, on air since 1997, took the award from Queer Eye and Shark Tank, which had held it between them.
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Noel and Liam Gallagher appear together off stage for the first time since the reunion, at the Oasis documentary premiere in Venice
The brothers walked the Lido together for Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger, which NME reports was met with an eight minute standing ovation.
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Jay-Z brings out Giggs and Lauryn Hill as he opens his London 30th anniversary shows
The first of two nights at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium included a crowd singalong of Happy Birthday to Beyonce, who watched from a private box.
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Lainey Wilson will host the 2026 CMA Awards for a third year running
The announcement was made live on ESPN’s College GameDay. It is Wilson’s third consecutive year fronting the country music awards.
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The Darkness announce a surprise Crock Of Hits show at London’s Moth Club
The intimate gig comes ahead of the band’s UK arena tour, which starts in December.
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Taylor Swift talks about the double meanings in I Knew It, I Knew You
In a rare country radio appearance, Swift said several lyrics carry more than one meaning, and that she likes how closely fans are reading them.
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King Lear at the Crucible: Ian McDiarmid is a titanic, heartbreaking wonder
The Guardian gives the Sheffield production five stars for clarity and authenticity, with McDiarmid at 82 playing the erratic demagogue.
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The BBC’s Alan Menken Prom: the line-up and the performances
The Royal Albert Hall Prom devoted to the Disney and Broadway composer is broadcast this evening. WhatsOnStage has the performers and the running order.
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Eleven West End shows are closing over the next week
WhatsOnStage lists the London productions taking their final bows in the next seven days, which is worth checking before you book anything.
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1984 at the Citizens, Glasgow, brings new meaning to the word Orwellian
Orwell himself is a character in this adaptation, which the Guardian finds frustrating and provocative in roughly equal measure.
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Munya Chawawa is leaving social media for Shakespeare and his stage acting debut
The comedian told the BBC he wants to move away from making social content, and is making his stage acting debut in Shakespeare.
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Gloria Steinem celebrated by Margaret Atwood, Dua Lipa, Lynda Carter and more
Authors, activists and admirers pay tribute to the campaigner, who died this week aged 92. Mariska Hargitay thanked her from the Emmys stage the same night.
